On 2022-03-28 13:52, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Personally, I wish that IBM had chosen ":=" for assignment.
You've forgotten that the basis for PL/I was an improved FORTRAN, which used "=" Anyway, you can define your own assignment operator, e.g. 'assigned_from', and use the preprocessor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN