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From:
Jesse Vincent
Date:
November 29, 2010 13:03
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] Add "safe arrow/safe dereference" operator: &&->
Message ID:
20101129210302.GA3825@puppy



On Mon 29.Nov'10 at 21:47:57 +0100, Abigail wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 01:54:10PM -0500, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> 
> blunt. My votes go for, in that order:
> 
>     ->>

To me, this doesn't have any mnemonic value.

>     ==>
>     -=>

I can't imagine how much pain we'd experience explaining to newbies that
=> is a comma, except when it's longer, in which case it's actually a
conditional dereference.
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