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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:50:27 +1100
Subject: Re: Error Testing
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Albert van der Horst
<albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> In article <mailman.1272.1382221693.18130.python-list@python.org>,
> Chris Angelico  <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Pascal tried to create a new operator, := to be read "becomes"...
>
> This suggests that Pascal went against established practice.
> This is false.

As acknowledged earlier in the thread, my "create" was a poor choice
of word. I didn't mean that Pascal was the first language to do it,
just that it's a language that did that and is likely to be reasonably
knowable. I'd rather pick examples people have a chance of recognizing
than ones they won't, if the former are available :)

ChrisA