From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2009-02-24T16:02:40+09:00 Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:04 PM, William James wrote: > 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. Actually it dates back to Algol. The people who designed it did it for a reason, but I can't remember what it was. I think it was to remind people that assignment was not equality, and the purists pronounce a := b as "a becomes b". -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.