From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2009-02-24T13:06:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language


On Feb 23, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Phlip wrote:

> Gary Wright wrote:
>
>> I always liked Eiffel's choice of := for assignment and
>> a single = for comparison.
>
> That is just foolish. You assign more often than you compare, hence  
> you should use the mechanism that's easier to type.


Foolish? Seems a bit strong.

There are lots of errors caused by = vs ==.  How much time is lost in  
that regard?  I think an hour of debugging time is worth a whole lot  
of :'s.

Gary Wright