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ASF GitHub Bot commented on METRON-1090:
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Github user cestella commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/687
hah, well @nickwallen, laziness is often a good trait in a developer.
Honestly, I am ok with *not* migrating here in favor of more intuitive
approaches. I chose `:=` because I needed the functionality and worried about
making the language more complex (there's something different about a language
that has assignments versus an expression language. I wanted to keep it an
expression language at the time.), so I was forced to choose a character
sequence that didn't exist as a lexable token. Now, honestly, we're already
halfway down that road, so probably the right thing to do *is* deprecate it and
rip the bandaid fast. I honestly could be convinced either way.
> STELLAR Add Assignment capability to Stellar language
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> Key: METRON-1090
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-1090
> Project: Metron
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Otto Fowler
> Assignee: Otto Fowler
> Priority: Major
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> Add support for =, +=, -=, *=, /= for variables in stellar.
> foo = 5 returns 5 AND sets foo to 5 if the VariableResolver supports it.
> The shell should be changed to assign variables using this syntax, because
> exposing the left side to stellar allows catching errors for invalid keywords
> in left side.
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