Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unhd!al
From: al@uunet!unhd (Anthony Lapadula)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: He's not the only one at it again!
Message-ID: <1990Aug1.174926.14589@uunet!unhd>
Date: 1 Aug 90 17:49:26 GMT
References: <25630@cs.yale.edu> <58091@lanl.gov> <3478@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <25681@cs.yale.edu>
Reply-To: al@unhd.UUCP (Anthony Lapadula)
Organization: Computing Information Services, University of New Hampshire
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In article <25681@cs.yale.edu> zenith-steven@cs.yale.edu (Steven Ericsson Zenith) writes:
>
>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.

Actually, ``=='', being two chartacters long, dovetails nicely with
``!='', ``<='', and ``>=''.

Besides, why do you consider ``=='' to be a hack, but not ``:=''?

-- Anthony (uunet!unhd!al, al@unh.edu) Lapadula

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