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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: C like op= proposal
Date: 1999/08/19
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<Pine.BSF.4.10.9908182033010.14398-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
  Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Robert Dewar wrote:
> > The pseudo-variable proposal seems entirely horrible to me,
and
> > indeed was not discussed at all. I can see all kinds of
abuse
> > and very little gain from this syntactic vinegar :-)
>
> ROTFL!
>
> That little expression (syntactic vinegar) was the high point
of a bland
> day. Is that an original Dewarism?

no, no, that's as old as programming languages as far as I know,
certainly it dates back to the 60's .. :-) but i appreciate the
ROTFL, anything to brighten up an otherwise dull day!




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