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Subject: Re: Error Testing
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 12:18:52 -0400
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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).


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