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Article #693Re: :=
From: Tom Almy
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1989 15:23
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1989 15:23
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In article <113@tacitus.tfic.bc.ca> clh@tacitus.UUCP (Chris Hermansen) writes: >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"? Well, in languages that don't allow embedded assignments operations, there is no syntactic conflict. As a statement it would be the former and as an expression it would be the latter. I don't find this confusing from a programmers point of view, unlike BASIC's use of "=" for both "becomes" and "equals". Just try explaining that to a beginning programmer! The assignment operation needs something distinctive that does not look like equals. Maybe we should use "i setq 37". :-) Tom Almy toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com Standard Disclaimers Apply
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekcrl!tekgvs!toma From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: := Message-ID: <6082@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> Date: 6 Oct 89 15:23:37 GMT References: <1989Oct3.182931.518@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <6054@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> <113@tacitus.tfic.bc.ca> Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 20