the := operator (affectation)

[Dan Shafer]

Better yet, let's include Smalltalk, too. It uses <- as the  
assignment operator.

Sheesh.

Dan

On Jun 22, 2005, at 2:24 PM, Mikey wrote:

> How is this even a continuing topic of discussion?  Hey Japanese - I
> think Katakana is too complicated.  Let's stick to 26 symbols, ok?
> Yeah.  I'd like that next year.  Transcript a different language.  It
> isn't Pascal or APL, or Fortran or Cobol or LISP or anything else, and
> thank goodness for that.  Do you actually ask the C++.net people for
> this special treatment, too?  Do they do anything but flame you off
> the list?  I mean - why :=?  Why not go for broke and do it the basic
> way?  = can be used for assignment and comparison, and it's less
> typing, so let's do that.
>
> I can see someone coming from C asking for some sort of different
> syntax (uh, no), but Pascal?  Please.
>
> Why not just abandon Transcript?  Let's just generate a universal
> interpreter/compiler.  Mix syntax, languages and whatever as you
> choose.  No problem.
>
> Is it ok if we don't get that implemented before 2.6.2?  We have a
> couple of things slated for 2.6.1 first.
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