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From: cjsonnack@mmm.com (Programmer Dude)
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Subject: Re: Where did /= come from?
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 16:57:54 -0600
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"Frank J. Lhota" wrote:

> For C to be consistent,
> 
>         a == b
>     and
>         a != b
> 
> should be equivalent to
> 
>         a = ( (a) = (b) )
>     and
>         a = ( (a) ! (b) )

That's funny!  ;-)

> Of course, C has not defined a binary "!" operator yet...

What about the compliment operator: ~

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