No.

"I meant what I said and I said what I meant,
A SysProg is faithful, 100%."
("Horton Hears an IPL", Dr. Seus)


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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of 
Robin Vowels [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2022 4:45 AM
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Subject: Re: PL/I question

On 2022-03-28 13:52, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> Personally, I wish that IBM had chosen ":=" for assignment.

You've forgotten that the basis for PL/I was an improved FORTRAN,
which used "="

Anyway, you can define your own assignment operator,
e.g. 'assigned_from', and use the preprocessor.

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