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- Subject: Re: ? assignments are not expressions ?
- From: "Michael T. Richter" <mtr@...>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:32:18 -0500
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> Lua should have had a different operator for assignment anyway (IMO).
> Decades of suffering C programmers have already proven that this was a
> bad design choice. Personally, I've always preferred Pascal's assignment
> operator.
I agree with you here. I like the := for assignment and = for equality
tests much better. You can't mistype = as := by just leaving your finger
on the key for a fraction of a second too long for starters....
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Michael T. Richter
"Be seeing you."
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