C history question

[Byron Rakitzis]

In article <1687 at sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> pmontgom at math.ucla.edu (Peter Montgomery) writes:
>	I ask why C lacks &&= and ||=.  In FORTRAN, I often write code like
>
.......
>
>but it seems in the language spirit to avoid repeating "allok"; 
>shouldn't we be allowed to abbreviate this to
>
>		allok &&= a[i] > b[i];
>--------
>        Peter Montgomery
>        pmontgom at MATH.UCLA.EDU 


Why not
	       allok &= (a[i] > b[i]);

In this case, the expression on the right will evaluate to either 0
or 1, and you can AND this with the previous value of allok.






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