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From: markg@ashtate (Mark Grand)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: :=
Summary: left arrow in ascii
Message-ID: <755@ashton.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 89 16:22:15 GMT
References: <1989Oct3.182931.518@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <89277.090337UH2@PSUVM.BITNET>
Organization: Ashton-Tate, Torrance, CA
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In article <89277.090337UH2@PSUVM.BITNET>, UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
> 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 :=.


Prior to 1967 the character code that is now rendered as '_' was a left arrow. 
There are still compilers that will recognize this as an alternative to :=.