Hannu Krosing wrote:
I don't think too many people are using that functionality intentionally; I
probably write more PL/pgSQL than anyone and would regard any assignment
without ":=" as a bug.
I do occasionally write some pl/pgSQL, and have at some points written a
lot of it. And most of it uses = instead of := , including all code
written during last 1.5 years.
Once I found out that = works for assignment, i completely stopped
using := .I have treated := as "deprecated" for some time already.
So allowing only := for assignment would make me very sad .
I can only comment that that seems crazy.
:= is
. documented
. consistent with pl/sql and ancestors
Even C doesn't use the same operator for assignment and comparison.
Sometimes I wonder if large parts of the IT world is trying to pretend
that the Algol family never existed.
cheers
andrew
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