"erik quanstrom" <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote in message news:332ccdbfcadf7769acbbd00931f5c...@brasstown.quanstro.net... ... > therefore the string "a++b" can't be valid, since the tokens > the parser sees are "a" INC "b". that's not kosher c. way > back when in primoridal c, there were no seperate tokens > for INC and DEC, they were productions in the parser and > goofiness like you describe was allowed.
No, in fact even in primordial C ++ -- were indeed separate tokens. However, in several early versions =+ and =- [sic] etc. were two tokens each, then adjoined by the parser. Dennis
