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Article #6077Re: colon-equal vs equal
From: Eliot Handelman
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1988 03:37
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1988 03:37
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In article <2567@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>If you want to flame a language, try
>BASIC ("if a = b then a = c"... the first is a comparison, the second an
>assignment).
In the only basic that I've ever used, your statement would read
if a = b then let a = c. It was Spectrum ZX Basic and I had the bright idea
of writing a lisp interpreter in it. The result was a nightmare.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!udel!princeton!phoenix!eliot From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: colon-equal vs equal Message-ID: <5067@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 31 Dec 88 03:37:35 GMT References: <3300001@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu> <3290002@hpctdls.HP.COM> <2567@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 9