what should be added to C

[Ben Cranston]

In article <8200005 at ztivax.UUCP> david at ztivax.UUCP writes:
>PLEASE don't make := the assignment operator!!!!!
>[shift][:] [=]  is a pain, slow, it hurts my fingers :-) and
>it is error prone if you type fast.
>The assignment operator is easily the most common, and so it
>should be one character, unshifted.

Clearly "=" should remain the assignment operator.  We should replace all
testing with the extended syntax:

...
   switch (a:b) {
   case <: isgreater; break;
   case =: isequal; break;
   case >: isless; break;
   default: yell("this cannot happen!\n");
   }
...

I would have used (a?b) but it was already taken...  :-)
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