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Article #1422Re: := versus ==
From: Erland Sommarskog
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 1990 14:45
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 1990 14:45
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David H. Thornley (thornley@cs.umn.edu) writes:
>My big complaint with :=, though, is that I've never found a keyboard with
>both ':' and '=' either both shifted or both unshifted, although I've seen
The keyboard on which I type now is configured that way. (VT220
clone, set to Swedish keyboard.)
An aside: right now I'm on a primitive operating system with a
primitive editor, but when using real stuff I set my terminal
in eight-bit mode, leading to that {} takes just as many key-
strokes a begin-end pair. Thankfully I don't use braces much.
--
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: := versus == Message-ID: <1965@enea.se> Date: 2 Aug 90 14:45:32 GMT References: <1990Jul31.162535.14673@cs.umn.edu> Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden Lines: 17