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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:57128

In article 
<CAPTjJmqRRxSx0rhU0bShQHBAwYm6_NWb6eX3hKetjwMDADQQxg@mail.gmail.com>,
 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pascal tried to create a new operator, := to be read "becomes", to
> deal with the whole equality-vs-assignment issue.

Um, Pascal was just following the lead of ALGOL 60, roughly a decade earlier.

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 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org