On 11.05.2018 09:38, Greg Ewing wrote:
Kirill Balunov wrote:
While for those who are familiar with Pascal, Icon and other
languages that use this syntax, this - `:=` looks natural.
As someone familiar with Pascal, I think the similarity to
the Pascal assignment operator is actually an argument
*against* it. Knowing what it means in Pascal is confusing,
because Pascal's ":=" is equivalent to Python's "=" (it's
strictly a statement, and can't be used in expressions).
Same here. It means something different.
Also coding in Pascal was annoying from the beginning with its extremely
verbose syntax like begin/end etc.
So, ":=" also felt like "why the hell do we need a colon in front of the
equal sign?"
Absolutely unnecessary bloat, like almost everything in Pascal.
Maybe that's also part, why I am -1 on the proposal. Who knows...
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