From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2009-02-24T15:04:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

Gary Wright wrote:

> 
> 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 dates back to Pascal.

> > 
> > 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.

C:

if (over_run = -1)
  self_destruct();

I often arrange my comparisons like

if -1 = over_run



> 
> Gary Wright



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