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<HR><H2>Re: assignment operator</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wed Mar  8 02:08:24 1995
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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 95 09:07:50 IST
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
From: bmgustav@bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il (Gustavo Glusman)

&gt;Hmm, ok, my vote would be for either '=:' or ':=', simply because (even
&gt;though it is cool) '-&gt;' or '&lt;-' would be too far from normalness...
&gt;
&gt;Some samples:
&gt;
&gt;----------
&gt;while (success := .attempt()) {
&gt;  .display(success);
&gt;}

:= is what is used in Pascal, and it is mistaken by = no less. People fail
to type the : too easily.
In other words, it might not solve the issue.
I think &lt;- is very good, and that its being 'far from normalness' can be an
asset, since the 'normal' methods cause confusion.

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