Subj : Re: Is well written code a rare species ?
To   : comp.programming
From : Stephen J Rush
Date : Mon Aug 15 2005 03:20 am

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:39:26 +0000, akarl wrote:

> We need an operator for equality tests and why would we choose anything 
> other than the symbol used in math? This means that the same symbol can 
> not be used for assignment (unless we overload it). I recall us having 
> this discussion some months ago, so I won't delve into it again. This is 
> not comp.lang.<some-c-family-language> so you simply have to accept 
> variations in syntax.

People deal with the ambiguous languages (like this one) all the time. 
Why do some people get their knickers in a twist over overloading the '='
operator?  It's not as if distinguishing an assignment statement from a
relational expression takes human judgment; every BASIC compiler manages
to get it right.

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