r wrote:
I think the syntax was chosen because the alternatives are even worse AND since assignment is SO common in programming, would you *really* rather type two chars instead of one?
Smalltalk solved the problem by using a left-arrow character for assignment. But they had an unfair advantage in being able to use a non-standard character set on their custom-built machines. We should be able to do a lot better now using Unicode. We could even heal the <> vs != rift by using a real not-equal symbol! -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
