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From: phil@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: colon-equal vs equal
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Date: 20 Dec 88 21:36:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!phil    Dec 20 15:36:00 1988


How did the := come into being in languages like Algol, Pascal, and Ada?
I still prefer the way it is in C (and a little lesser so in Rexx and
Fortran).  My second beef against := is the extra character.  My FIRST
beef against := is the KeYbOaRd ShIfTiNg I hAvE tO kEeP dOiNg FoR iT.