From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-13 07:12:18
"Joel de Guzman" <djowel_at_[hidden]> writes:
> Do you guys still want this addition regardless if there's a simpler solution
> to the r.alias() problem which started this discussion?
>
> My worry is that, in C++ (as if we are not in C++ eh? :-),
>
> a |= b
>
> is equavalent to
>
> a = a | b
>
> In Spirit (the proposed behavior of |=):
>
> a |= b
>
> will not be equivalent to:
>
> a = a | b
>
That doesn't bother me, FWIW.
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