Re: Problem trying to implement generics.

["chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>]

> The "+=", et alia, were basically invented by people who couldn't type.

Sorry but that's not correct.  I used to have a similar opinion, but i was
corrected by someone who, like me, dislikes C.  Anyways "+=" and "*=" are
deliberately written like this because of "structured assembly" which is
what C is meant to be.

Consider the following assembly (intel X86 style syntax) ,

ADD       A, B                          ;  add B to A

it's written in C like this

A += B;
(maybe B+=A;  I ain't used it myself so i don't know}

That's why it was designed this way and it was chosen by K & R delib.  The
language was invented to write OS's.  Not a very good attempt if you ask me,
it's left the world with buggy programs that need ton's of comments but
usually don't have because C programmers seem think it's clever not to
include them.  Most of my Ada code(and much of the Ada code out there) only
needs "what it does" in the spec with only the smallest amount of "how it
does it" in the body.  I also find that a lot more effort is needed to
explain C code in intro texts than Ada (I've got a few 100 to 400 page books
for Ada that cover quite a bit, but a 1000+ page book on C that doesn't
teach very much except "in C if a function screws up return a non-zero
integer")

[End of useless information...]

Chris.