From: Bulat Ziganshin Date: 2002-10-07T14:11:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Specifying local and external block parameters (that old chestnut) Hello MikkelFJ, Sunday, October 06, 2002, 6:51:01 PM, you wrote: M> := assigns to local block scope, = assigns to outside the local block scope. i personally think that this usage will be very strange nad untraditional. for me, it is better to use '=' for constant assignment and ':=' for variable assignment, as done in algol-68 and in some modern FP languages -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@integ.ru