developing for mobile devices

[Graham Samuel]

Sure you can write

  a = 1

but it will be in an 'if' construction, and the result will be either true or false. There are or were languages where the boolean equality sign was distinguished from the assignment sign: in Algol, if I remember rightly, we wrote

  a := 1

To put 1 into a. I always liked that syntax. But that was when dinosaurs ruled the earth.

Graham

On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:43:21 -0400, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> Dot syntax has been talked about in the past, and don't forget that it's not even just dot syntax that doesn't exist in LC, you can't even say:
> 
> a = 1
>