Operator should be += OR =+
We are quite used to operators like +=, -=.
Just going through the history of C, I came to know that older versions of C used =+, =- to mean what the operators +=,-= mean these days. And they changed it when they realized that assignment of a -ve number to integer is rather ambiguous e.g.
int i;
i =-1 // i is supposed to be -1 but this was resolved as i=i-1;
A way round to this problem might have been something like this
int i = 0;
i =- 1;
Of course it will not work in cases when i contains anyvalue other than zero.
posted by Unknown @ 6:18 AM
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2 Comments:
Well
i=-1; // In this case the readibilty is decreased bcz it is at first sight thought to be -1 so keeping in view of the language aspects the case should be:
i-=1; / which is the better case of readibiltiy and easy to understand
Yeah You are right. Readibility is decreased as well and still it was not possible to assign -1 to an integer without first assigning 0 to it when this syntax is used.
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