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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: C's trikery semantic opens up backdoor in new Linux kernel
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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org> wrote in
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> And I thought ==, +=, -= should be so much more readable as 5 languages
> use them ;-)

A little off topic but if you have a  += type operator why doesn't x == y
mean x := (x = y) (the second part isn't c of course ;)

A little inconsistent if you ask me ;-)