True, but it's convenient to be able to write things like "foo := sine(bar := baz);".
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Jay Maynard [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2022 12:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PL/I question Not me. Assignment is a much more common operation than comparison. It should be the shorter token. On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 9:52 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally, I wish that IBM had chosen ":=" for assignment. > -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
