swap(x,y)

[Raymond Dunn]

In article <4151 at buengc.BU.EDU> bph at buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>>And by the way: why do you need an operator for swapping?
>
>Because if a machine can do it with a coupla gates and half a cycle,
>I'd like to do it with an operator.

This sounds dangerously like the arguments made by Herman Rubin that 'C'
should provide facilities to access all the functionality of the machine
architecture in some direct way.

Since when was that the goal of *any* language other than assemblers?

Which particular architecture is the source of these language features?
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