Is anybody else bothered by those stupid pascal-like ":=" assignment operators?
Maybe, for the sake of adding more variety to the world, wiki should come up with a new assignment operator, like "==". I like that one because then it could really be original: if (bob = 4): bob == bob + 2 See how nice that looks? Then we could have people who are used to python and c and perl complaining that "=" is for comparison and "==" is for assignment. Then the wikilitests would say "hey, man, part and parcel of being a programmer is getting assignment and comparison straight--and not making typos, you buffoon". But then the guys who have to program in a bunch of languages would point out how the wikilitests only psuedo code in wiki--so they would never even run the code they wrote. And then some understanding fellow would recommend a wiki precompiler to catch "==" inside of "if" statements, but then someone else would say that it would limit the expressiveness of wiki language: bob == (carol = 2): if bob = (bob or carol): bob == 4 But no one could figure out what bob was supposed to equal anyway. And then someone would say something about a "Turing Machine", just to show that theoretically, the above code could be understood by something theoretical. James On Friday 01 April 2005 11:23 am, Terry Reedy wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > The free wikipedia is adopting a standard pseudocode: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikicode/Specification -- James Stroud, Ph.D. UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list