Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:91931 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 83898 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2016 22:08:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Mar 2016 22:08:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=addw@phcomp.co.uk; sender-id=permerror Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=addw@phcomp.co.uk; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain phcomp.co.uk designates 78.32.209.33 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: addw@phcomp.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 78.32.209.33 freshmint.phcomp.co.uk Received: from [78.32.209.33] ([78.32.209.33:41968] helo=mint.phcomp.co.uk) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 02/AC-15440-25564F65 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:08:19 -0500 Received: from addw by mint.phcomp.co.uk with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ajDQO-000739-0R for internals@lists.php.net; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 22:08:16 +0000 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 22:08:15 +0000 To: PHP internals Message-ID: <20160324220815.GG6260@phcomp.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: PHP internals References: <4A533E4C-D24D-4148-A306-94E006274E28@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A533E4C-D24D-4148-A306-94E006274E28@gmail.com> Organization: Parliament Hill Computers Ltd User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Add spaceship assignment operator From: addw@phcomp.co.uk (Alain Williams) On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 09:16:50PM +0100, Midori Kocak wrote: > actually it could be proposed to C in 1970 in a same manner for += operator by saying +== and +=== and also +====. But hence Dennis Ritchie is dead and he accepted += as a founding father, we have no chance to ask him. Can we ask maybe to Bjarne Stroustrup as being one of another founding fathers? Is there anyone being in contact with him? from what I can remember of the PDP-11 instruction set the ++ and -- operators were put into C because there were op codes that did that, that is what someone told me some 35 years ago. We keep them because all Unixy languages have them. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include