unary + and C standardization

mrm at datagen.UUCP mrm at datagen.UUCP
Tue Jul 17 23:58:28 AEST 1984


The reason I heard that Ritchie objected to unary + is that it doesn't give
the programmer any power (except to insure an lvalue is an rvalue).  The
argument for adding unary + was that other languages have it, and it
makes writing a program which translates other languages into C easier.

	Michael Meissner
	Data General Corporation
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