On Jun 7, 10:24 am, Sam Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've long believed that '=' should be banned from programming languages. > Use '==' for equality tests, and ':=' for assignments.
That's an interesting suggestion that I don't recall hearing anyone else ever mention. On Jun 7, 10:24 am, Sam Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Salerno wrote: > > "Dave Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On May 20, 7:05 pm, Collin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- > > For example, consider the two statements: > > > x = 8 > > x = 10 > > > The reaction from most math teachers (and kids) was "one of those is > > wrong because x can't equal 2 different things at the same time". > > --- > > > Aw, come on. I'm a novice programmer but even after reading the most basic > > of introductions to a programming language I can tell that x is being > > assigned one value, then another. > > I've long believed that '=' should be banned from programming languages. > Use '==' for equality tests, and ':=' for assignments.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
