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<captjjmqrrxsx0rhu0bshqhbawym6_nwb6ex3hketjwmdadq...@mail.gmail.com>,
 Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pascal tried to create a new operator, := to be read "becomes", to
> deal with the whole equality-vs-assignment issue.

Um, Pascal was just following the lead of ALGOL 60, roughly a decade earlier.

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 Ned Deily,
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