On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:03:26 -0800, Phlip wrote: > On Jan 12, 7:09 am, ikuta liu <ikut...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Go language try to merge low level, hight level and browser language. > > Go uses := for assignment. > > This means, to appease the self-righteous indignation of the math > professor who would claim = should mean "equality"... > > ...you gotta type a shift and 2 characters for a very common operator.
I doubt it has anything to do with "the math professor". Any maths professor will tell you that, in mathematics, = is used for both assignment and equality, since in maths they are the same thing. And besides, equality testing is no less common than assignment. To appease the "self-righteous indignation of the C coders", we have to type == instead of = for a very common operator. No matter what convention you use, you're going to upset some group of people. Seriously, I programmed in Pascal for many years, and typing := for assignment is not a burden. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
