syntax for unary assignment operators (was Re: C history question)

[Ta06]

>>A somewhat consistent but fairly bizarre syntax would be
>>	x -=;
>The problem with this is that you would like it to have the same precedence
>as ++ and --.  ...

Why?  We don't expect the regular += to have the same precedence as +...
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