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From: Rex Reges <Dogbert.EggsAndSpamWithoutTheSpam@reges.org>
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Ian Wild wrote:
> 
> Rex Reges wrote:
> >
> > When reading code where every assignment is done on primitive
> > components throughout, I find this reminiscent of writing a
> > C program since C doesn't have an assignment operator for
> > things like structures and arrays. Tedious, eh?
> 
> AFAIK structure assignment was added to C sometime in the
> late seventies.  You really ought to upgrade your compiler.

Hmmm, I must have missed that in my ANSI C manual. A function
can return a structure, but I must have been using strmov and
memmov for no good reason, eh?  It's good to hear.

Rex Reges