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From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>
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For C to be consistent,

        a == b
    and
        a != b

should be equivalent to

        a = ( (a) = (b) )
    and
        a = ( (a) ! (b) )

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