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Re: c needs this sign

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Janis Papanagnou pisze:
> On 2026-09-07 21:21, David LaRue wrote:
>> fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> wrote in news:117mfle$3aage$1@dont-email.me:
>>
>>> im not sure if in usenet message i am able to draw it but maybe put it
>>> in some editor that has font where chars are same size
>>>
>>> .................
>>> .................
>>> .................
>>> ..*************..
>>> ..*************..
>>> .................
>>> .................
>>> ..*************..
>>> ..*************..
>>> ..**.............
>>> ..**.............
>>> .................
>>>
>>>
>>> it is like = but with some small line, suggestin it is for assign not 
>>> for
>>> equality,,, asci dont have it more worse im not sure if even unicode has
>>> it and this is shocking
> 
> I'm lacking context why you need that, for what you need that, what it
> is supposed to mean - differentiate assignment from equality; is that
> what you tried to express? - and why it's non-existence is "shocking".
> 


i make some deductions about C (im not sure if i can it deduction here 
but it is thinking with yeald to quite grounded conclusions (i find it 
almost scientific - in some way)

some time ago (not even so long it was probably like i was lats time 
visiting this group) i concluded that if(a==3) is wrong and it seems
one and only proper way here is   if(a=3) it means = may be for 
comparison, not for assigment

THUS you need something for assigment and from traditional reasons it 
should be (probably ) close to = and more like in direction to <- but 
not so far (being in traditionalist spirit here)

THUS i think it should be something like i drawed here and its realy 
WEIRD there is no so sign in ascii/unicode as if some think  this kind 
of char suggests itself

the link you give found something like that

a⥫2

its close but = ⥫ what i need should be more like = and this small 
addon/tail also should be slightly more visible..though  this "Leftwards 
harpoon with barb down below long dash" (0x296b) in fact is not totally 
teriible
but probably depending on font.. in editor i use now notepad++ and 
lucida console it not renders





> To find characters by a (hand-painted) glyph you can use this service:
> https://shapecatcher.com/
> 
> If you dislike C's '==' for equality, and '=' for assignment, so much
> that you continue your whining and get even mentally shocked I affirm
> the previously given suggestion to just switch language (and newsgroup).
> 
> (There's many other languages that made (IMO) better choices than "C"
> concerning these operators/operations. Often there's ':=' used for the
> assignment and '=' for equality. Or there's context dependent parsing
> and interpretation of the '=' symbol.)
> 
> It's your choice.
> 
> Janis
> 
> BTW, I see that in Unicode there seems to be "Colon equals" '≔'
> (Unicode hexadecimal: 0x2254, In block: Mathematical Operators),
> which resembles the common two-character assignment symbol ':=',
> but depending on the font it's hard to recognize. - And it's not
> common or guaranteed that languages support Unicode characters,
> let alone as part of the basic language definition.
> 
>>>
>>
>> C doesn't use that character.  Adapt to whatever language you want to 
>> use.
>>
>> You might look at a Forth system and see if you can define the meaning of
>> that symbol to do what you want.  Forth allows you to do things like 
>> that.
> 

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c needs this sign fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-07 15:53 +0200
  Re: c needs this sign David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> - 2026-09-07 19:21 +0000
    Re: c needs this sign Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-09-08 01:10 +0200
      Re: c needs this sign Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2026-09-07 23:13 +0000
        Re: c needs this sign Lane W <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-07 17:26 -0600
      Re: c needs this sign David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-09-08 10:40 +0200
        Re: c needs this sign Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-09-09 10:49 +0200
          Re: c needs this sign David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-09-09 13:21 +0200
            Re: c needs this sign fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-09 13:33 +0200
            Support of Unicode characters in various places (was Re: c needs this sign) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-09-09 21:37 +0200
              Re: Support of Unicode characters in various places (was Re: c needs this sign) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-09-10 09:01 +0200
                Re: Support of Unicode characters in various places (was Re: c needs this sign) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-09-10 23:13 +0200
                Re: Support of Unicode characters in various places (was Re: c needs this sign) Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-09-10 14:54 -0700
                Re: Support of Unicode characters in various places (was Re: c needs this sign) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-09-10 22:17 +0000
                Re: Support of Unicode characters in various places (was Re: c needs this sign) Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-09-10 15:48 -0700
                Re: Support of Unicode characters in various places (was Re: c needs this sign) bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-09-11 10:51 +0100
                Re: Support of Unicode characters in various places (was Re: c needs this sign) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-09-11 12:49 +0200
                Re: Support of Unicode characters in various places (was Re: c needs this sign) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-09-11 16:28 +0000
                Re: Support of Unicode characters in various places (was Re: c needs this sign) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-09-11 02:03 +0200
                Re: Support of Unicode characters in various places (was Re: c needs this sign) Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-09-10 17:13 -0700
                Re: Support of Unicode characters in various places (was Re: c needs this sign) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-09-11 02:24 +0200
                Re: Support of Unicode characters in various places (was Re: c needs this sign) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-09-11 09:42 +0200
          Re: c needs this sign fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-09 23:59 +0200
            Re: c needs this sign fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-10 00:04 +0200
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              Re: c needs this sign bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-09-09 23:44 +0100
                Re: c needs this sign fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-10 00:55 +0200
                Re: c needs this sign fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-10 01:09 +0200
                Re: c needs this sign fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-10 01:21 +0200
                Re: c needs this sign fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-10 01:36 +0200
                Re: c needs this sign fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-10 01:45 +0200
                Re: c needs this sign Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-15 07:23 +0000
      Re: c needs this sign fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-08 11:56 +0200
        Re: c needs this sign bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-09-08 11:14 +0100
          Re: c needs this sign fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-08 12:28 +0200
          Re: c needs this sign Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-09-08 03:54 -0700
            Re: c needs this sign fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-08 13:13 +0200
            = vs. == (again!) (Was: c needs this sign) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-09-08 14:39 +0000
              Re: = vs. == (again!) (Was: c needs this sign) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-10-14 23:36 -0700
            Re: c needs this sign Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-09-09 11:13 +0200
          Re: c needs this sign Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-09 00:29 +0000
            Re: c needs this sign "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-09-10 13:42 -0700
      Re: c needs this sign fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-08 15:12 +0200
  Re: c needs this sign Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-08 03:33 +0000
    Re: c needs this sign fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-08 12:02 +0200
      Re: c needs this sign Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-09 00:27 +0000

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