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Re: Error Testing

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Date 2013-10-31 10:50 +1100
Subject Re: Error Testing
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1863.1383177038.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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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

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  Re: Error Testing Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-19 13:37 +0100
    Re: Error Testing Scott Novinger <scnovinger@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 06:34 -0700
      Re: Error Testing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 00:42 +1100
      Re: Error Testing rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 09:22 -0700
        Re: Error Testing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 09:28 +1100
          Re: Error Testing albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-10-30 21:43 +0000
            Re: Error Testing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 10:50 +1100
            Re: Error Testing Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-10-31 15:20 +0000
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                Re: Error Testing Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-10-31 17:17 +0000
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                Re: Error Testing Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-11-01 10:51 -0400
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                Re: Error Testing rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 10:56 -0700
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                Re: Error Testing Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 22:59 +0000
                Re: Error Testing rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 20:50 -0700
                Re: Error Testing Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-01 09:39 +0000
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  Re: Error Testing Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-19 15:50 -0400
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