On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 8:41 PM Walt Karas via Std-Proposals <std-proposals@lists.isocpp.org> wrote:
I suggest adding the keyword "eq"  as an alternative to  the == token.

Why?
Especially "why?" because as you point out, the `eq` in `and_eq` already denotes a single equals sign. If you were going to add an English name for the == operator, "eqeq" would make more sense.

bitand= , bitor= , bitxor= seem more clear and consistent to me than and_eq, or_eq, xor_eq.  The pain point is that bitand/bitor/binxor would have to become reserve words rather than just keywords.  With that change, would there be any parsing ambiguities with these sequences of two tokens representing a single operator?

It's C++; there is always a parsing ambiguity.
https://godbolt.org/z/cqKWsT

Trying to make one lexical token out of two tokens is also a huge mess because it interacts with the Maximal Munch Rule. You'd have to invent a way to lex the sequence of characters `bitand==`. Today that means the two tokens `& ==`, but under your rule it seems like you'd want it to become `&= =`? How would you specify that, exactly?

Notice that under today's C++ lexing rules, `bitand&` is not a synonym for `&&`; it's a synonym for `& &`. I consider this a good thing.

–Arthur