Re: :=

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From: Lee Sailer
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1989 13:03

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I vaguely remember that <-- (a one character left arrow) was included in
some early versions of ASCII, about 1970 or so.  When the final definition
finally settled down, it was gone.  Hence :=.

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!uh2
From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: :=
Message-ID: <89277.090337UH2@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 4 Oct 89 13:03:37 GMT
References: <1989Oct3.182931.518@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: Penn State University
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