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Re: Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? Why are languages usually defined and implemented with ambiguous grammars?

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> [Interesting take.  In reality, of couse, BASIC borrowed that from Fortran.  Algol
> used := for assignment, different from = for equality comparison. -John]

Indeed.
Unfortunately, assignment is probably the single most common operator.
The ASCII committee should have kept the left-arrow character instead of
replacing it with underscore.

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Re: Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? Why are languages usually defined and implemented with ambiguous grammars? Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2021-12-29 18:48 +0000
  Re: Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? Why are languages usually defined and implemented with ambiguous grammars? Jan Ziak <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b@gmail.com> - 2021-12-29 16:05 -0800
    Re: Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? Why are languages usually defined and implemented with ambiguous grammars? Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2021-12-30 18:00 +0000
      Re: Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? Why are languages usually defined and implemented with ambiguous grammars? Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2021-12-30 20:08 +0000
  Re: Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? Why are languages usually defined and implemented with ambiguous grammars? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2021-12-29 18:41 -0800
    Re: Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? Why are languages usually defined and implemented with ambiguous grammars? Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2021-12-30 18:14 +0000
      Re: Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? Why are languages usually defined and implemented with ambiguous grammars? Jan Ziak <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b@gmail.com> - 2021-12-30 13:47 -0800
        Re: What does = mean, was Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? Jan Ziak <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b@gmail.com> - 2021-12-30 17:10 -0800
        Re: Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? Why are languages usually defined and implemented with ambiguous grammars? mac <acolvin@efunct.com> - 2022-01-03 19:51 +0000
          Re: for or against equality, was Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-01-03 21:07 -0800
            Re: for or against equality, was Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-01-04 19:23 +0000
            Re: for or against equality, was Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-01-04 13:26 -0800
    Re: Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? Why are languages usually defined and implemented with ambiguous grammars? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2021-12-30 13:40 -0800
  Re: why do people choose a language, was Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? Jan Ziak <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b@gmail.com> - 2021-12-30 20:19 -0800

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