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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 07:45:38 MST
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 11 Jun 1996 10:16:10 GMT
From: fanf2@thor.cam.ac.uk (Tony Finch)
Message-Id: <4pjh1a$7ns@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Organization: Coll: SS. et Indiv: Trin: Cant:
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <8gd9395zyb.fsf@galapagos.cse.psu.edu>, <4pga54$2qt@lectura.CS.Arizona.EDU>, <4piqll$mpm@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: m3 should have SWAP(a,b)
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Status: O
In article <4piqll$mpm@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>,
Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> wrote:
> Concerning swap and rotate.
[...]
> (5) Dijkstra's notation uses parallel assignment; I believe there have been
> one or two implementations of it.
[...]
> That's the reason why parallel assignment is useful: it lets you move from
> one state to another *without* introducing strange intermediate states.
BCPL has parallel assignment.
Tony.
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