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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2024 05:53:29 +0200
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On 07.09.2024 12:53, Bart wrote:
> 
> I remarked that a proper HLL would let you write just A to either read
> the value of variable A, or write to it. Eg. A = A, without special
> operators to dereference A's address.
> 
> At the lower level it might be push/pop, load/store, or even *&A = *&A,
> but in all cases you typically use the same levels of indirection on
> both sides.

No. (And I think here lies your misconception or irritations concerning
the term "symmetry".) When writing 'A = A' there is still a semantical
_asymmetry_ in "C", it only appears symmetric (because of the chosen
operator symbol and the implicit 'deref' operation which is typical in
most programming languages).

Janis

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