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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: := versus ==
Message-ID: <1976@enea.se>
Date: 8 Aug 90 20:21:49 GMT
References: <1990Jul31.162535.14673@cs.umn.edu>
Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden
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(Reposted because I think first attempt failed. Apologies for any
repetition.)

David H. Thornley (thornley@cs.umn.edu) writes:
>My big complaint with :=, though, is that I've never found a keyboard with
>both ':' and '=' either both shifted or both unshifted, although I've seen

The keyboard on which I type now is configured that way. (VT220
clone, set to Swedish keyboard.)

An aside: right now I'm on a primitive operating system with a
primitive editor, but when using real stuff I set my terminal
in eight-bit mode, leading to that {} takes just as many key-
strokes a begin-end pair. Thankfully I don't use braces much.
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Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se