Or even use plain old := for assignment to help avoid confusion with ==. I wonder if K & R wanted to save a character for terseness. I mean, these are the guys

Or even use plain old := for assignment to help avoid confusion with ==. I wonder if K & R wanted to save a character for terseness. I mean, these are the guys who said, if they were writing Unix again, would "spell creat with an e." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson