In our previous episode, Florian Kl?mpfl said:
> >> and remove it in the next major version.
> > 
> > [Note: No personal attack intended with the next sentence] In that case
> > I think we are lucky that you aren't a core dev :P
> > We value backwards compatiblity very high and this is part of it, no
> > matter whether these c-like operators are considered good or bad...
> 
> The C-style operators have a special status anyways: they were one of
> the first third party contributions to fpc somewhere in spring '96 :)

Even if you don't like them (like me), they are occasionally handy when
translating C code. Avoids introducing errors.
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