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From: zenith-steven@cs.yale.edu (Steven Ericsson Zenith)
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Subject: Re: He's not the only one at it again!
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Date: 30 Jul 90 13:27:52 GMT
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In article <3478@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <58091@lanl.gov>, jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>
>> 2) Features which are different, but completely irrelevant (like using
>>    ":=" instead of "=" for assignment).
>
>It isn't clear what := is supposed to be irrelevant to.

a := b	means "assign the value of b to a".
a = b	means "a is equal to b".

The use of := distinguishes assignment from equality, thus prevents
overloading a single operator and IMHO is a much nicer solution to the
C hack == used to ovecome the same problem.

Steven.
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