C history question

[Bjorn Engsig]

|In article <1687 at sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> pmontgom at math.ucla.edu (Peter Montgomery) writes:
|>shouldn't we be allowed to abbreviate this to
|>		allok &&= a[i] > b[i];
Article <11046 at smoke.BRL.MIL> by gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) says:
|If allok is being used as a Boolean, as it should be in such a context,
|you can use &= instead.  One less character to type, too.
No.  I assume that &&= should only evaluate it's right hand if the lefthand
is nonzero.
|
|[Doug continues with other points about boolean (assingment) operators]
I agree with these, it would be too much for a very limited use.  I would
write the above

if (allok)
  allok = a[i] > b[i];
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