If anyone is interested I came across this same subject on a blog post and
discussion on HN today:
- https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/equals-as-assignment/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803874
On 2018-04-02 15:03, Guido van Rossum wrote:
IIRC Algol-68 (the lesser-known, more complicated version) used 'int x = 0;' to
declare a constant and 'int x := 0;' to declare a variable. And there was a lot
more to it; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68#mode:_Declarations. I'm
guessing Go reversed this because they want '=' to be the common assignment
(whereas in Algol-68 the common assignment was ':=').
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