Re: ? assignments are not expressions ?

[Will Leshner <will@...>]

Actually, I think C's use of == for equality is consistent with other tests
like it, namely !=, <=, and =>. So I kinda like == for an equality test.

> From: "Michael T. Richter" <mtr@igs.net>
> Organization: Half-Baked Software
> Reply-To: lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:32:18 -0500
> To: Multiple recipients of list <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
> Subject: Re: ? assignments are not expressions ?
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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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