On 03/25/12 10:16, Kiuhnm wrote:
On 3/25/2012 15:48, Tim Chase wrote:
The old curmudgeon in me likes the Pascal method of using "=" for
equality-testing, and ":=" for assignment which feels a little closer to
mathematical use of "=".
Unfortunately, ":=" means "is defined as" in mathematics. The "right"
operator would have been "<-".
Yeah, while I like the "<-" better too, I'm not *quite* old
enough to have influenced Wirth in his design decisions ;-)
-tkc
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