Yes, that is the primary reason they were flipped. Typing<p><pre><code>  x=-42;
</code></pre>
when you meant<p><pre><code>  x= -42;
</code></pre>
was just too easy. I know. I did it.<p>Similarly, as I recall, variable initialization of the form<p><pre><code>  int i 17;
</code></pre>
created some sort of parsing problem and was changed to the current form<p><pre><code>  int i = 17;
</code></pre>
I learned Unix on a PDP-11 running v6 and I had to learn all of the changes when we got 32V for the new VAX.