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Article #1467Re: := versus ==
From: Erland Sommarskog
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 1990 20:21
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 1990 20:21
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(Reposted because I think first attempt failed. Apologies for any
repetition.)
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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