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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: colon-equal vs equal
Message-ID: <5067@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 31 Dec 88 03:37:35 GMT
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Reply-To: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
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In article <2567@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

>If you want to flame a language, try
>BASIC ("if a = b then a = c"... the first is a comparison, the second an
>assignment).

In the only basic that I've ever used, your statement would read
if a = b then let a = c. It was Spectrum ZX Basic and I had the bright idea
of writing a lisp interpreter in it. The result was a nightmare.