the := operator (affectation)

[Mark Wieder]

Richard-

Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 1:56:20 PM, you wrote:

RG> A single-token assignment operator would be a nice OPTION.  Those who
RG> prefer the traditional form would never need to deal with it, while
RG> those of us who are comfortable with it could use it.  I see no downside
RG> and many upsides as Rev expands the range of people it might appeal to....

I do. An IDE switch to allow one syntax or the other would be
allowable (IMO) but having both permitted at once would be even more
confusing for someone new coming into xtalk. And the compiler has to
do a lot more work parsing two different syntaxes at once, which would
make it more error-prone and slower.

...and, yes, I'm also constantly typing "var = 4", but I fix it up and
move on.

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-Mark Wieder
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