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| From | August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.php |
| Subject | Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) |
| Date | 2011-07-18 20:31 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <j01u5e$e5q$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <4e2050e3$0$48996$dbd4f001@news.wanadoo.nl> <ivum48$uri$1@dont-email.me> <ivumit$vlb$3@dont-email.me> <ivusrk$a3c$1@dont-email.me> <1530422.qVoOGUtdWV@PointedEars.de> |
On 2011-07-18 17:55, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > August Karlstrom wrote: >> Don't be silly. There are several programming languages in which `=' >> denote (surprise) equality. > > And I have found all programs written in any of those programming languages > to be more difficult to maintain than the rest. One such language is > VBScript (which is particularly bad designed in other respects as well). That's because they have been badly designed in other respects as you mention. > It is no coincidence that all modern higher-level programming languages make > a syntactical and not only a contextual difference between assignment and > comparison Yes, that is a good thing. > I would always consider it a result of bad language design for a (built-in) > operator to have such very different meanings. Agreed. The assignment symbol should ideally be a left arrow but as we all know it is not available on a standard keyboard or in the ASCII character set. I think `:=' is a reasonable alternative. August -- The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. --Edsger Dijkstra
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Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com> - 2011-07-17 19:47 +0200
Re: Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-07-17 14:12 -0400
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Re: error message I don understand Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-07-18 17:55 +0200
Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com> - 2011-07-18 20:31 +0200
Re: Nasty language semantics Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-07-18 21:29 +0200
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