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From: kwellsch@tampabay.rr.com (Ken Wellsch)
Subject: [TUHS] So now that the source is finally out...
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:40:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020129204028.B15866@arundel.fortyfour.org> (raw)

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 02:03:40PM -0500, norman at nose.cs.utoronto.ca wrote:
> 
> > Ken Wellsch:
> > I'm fairly sure things like "=+" and so on were replaced with "+="
> > in the move from V6 to V7.
> 
> The V7 C compiler accepted =+, but it still accepted += as well; there was
> a lot of code written the old way, and nobody wanted to be forced to convert
> everything all at once.  

Apologies, typical of my terse replies - I was actually concerned
with clearing up the possible misconception that "=+" was a "feature"
of V7 rather than an "obsolete" holdover from V6.  I suppose historic
accuracy in this context is of little use, I don't know.  I certainly
can believe one can find such artifacts in the existing V7 code 8-)

Cheers,

-- Ken



             reply	other threads:[~2002-01-30  1:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-30  1:40 Ken Wellsch [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-31  1:03 John Holden
2002-01-27 19:03 norman
2002-01-26 14:50 Ken Wellsch
2002-01-27 23:58 ` Greg Lehey
2002-01-31  0:29   ` Joerg Micheel
2002-01-25 19:18 Carl Lowenstein
2002-01-24 18:39 Rob Becker
2002-01-25  9:42 ` P.A.Osborne
2002-01-25 10:27   ` M. Warner Losh
2002-01-25 11:16     ` P.A.Osborne
2002-01-25 15:19       ` Ephrem Hugh Bensusan
2002-01-25 15:52         ` M. Warner Losh
2002-01-25 21:08           ` David C. Jenner
2002-01-25 16:24       ` Wolfgang Rupp
2002-01-29  6:17         ` M. Warner Losh
2002-01-25 16:30       ` Wolfgang Rupp
2002-01-25 17:30   ` Jeffrey S. Sharp

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