the := operator (affectation

[Mark Wieder]

Dar-

Thursday, June 23, 2005, 10:40:06 AM, you wrote:

DS> Commands in xTalk follow the English implied-you imperatives. The
DS> deviation from that to a descriptive of the dataflow does not fit.  I
DS> come from a functional programming background, but I accept the 
DS> imperative style.

Exactly. The verbose xtalk form makes the assignment unambiguous,
where C, for example, had to resort to the confusing "==" operator in
order to disambiguate things.

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-Mark Wieder
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