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| From | Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Error Testing |
| Date | 2013-10-20 12:18 -0400 |
| Organization | IISS Elusive Unicorn |
| References | (2 earlier) <ea2d79c5-e116-458f-a77c-700e748323e2@googlegroups.com> <9e734f2b-9bcd-47d8-adb9-de6501fa6e7d@googlegroups.com> <CAPTjJmqRRxSx0rhU0bShQHBAwYm6_NWb6eX3hKetjwMDADQQxg@mail.gmail.com> <nad-4A9EE2.15461719102013@news.gmane.org> <CAPTjJmoeY2K-MugznMtHP+c9q+EoPEonCr4ZQWBunon4tTYcmw@mail.gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.1285.1382285945.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 10:02:23 +1100, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:
>On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Sorry, the word "create" was poorly chosen. Would "deploy" be better?
>I'm aware there's a family; what I'm trying to say is that, in Pascal
>(I prefer to use a better-known language for discussion, where
>possible), there's a new operator instead of =.
>
The point is that Algol-60 already used ":=" for that operation. It was
not new with Pascal. (Actually, Algol-58 [IAL] introduced the := )(And if
one trusts Wikipedia, the \ was added to ASCII to support some Algol
operators).
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
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