swap(x,y)

[H.L. Stahl]

In article <10897 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <1545 at l.cc.purdue.edu> cik at l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
> ...
>
>>This is another example of keeping the tools from the programmer.
>
>No, this is another example of not knowing how to use the tools that are
>already provided.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ VERY TRUE!

And by the way: why do you need an operator for swapping?

if it is for int, float, ..., it is quite simple; if it is for any structure,
you should better use pointers instead, which is faster.


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