Re: :=

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From: Chris Hermansen
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1989 22:25

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In article <6054@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
>I personally would like to see the left arrow back. It makes more sense
>than colon equal (gag, why couldn't they at least have used <- ?) and both

What does
	i<-37
mean, given this symbology; "i becomes 37" or "i lessthan -37"?  I'm sure
there are convenient ways around this now, but look at all the trouble people
used to have with the dangling else :-)

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From: clh@tacitus.tfic.bc.ca (Chris Hermansen)
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Subject: Re: :=
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Date: 5 Oct 89 22:25:15 GMT
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