alister <alister.nospam.w...@ntlworld.com>: > It already is a different operator from equality which is == > > perhaps it would have been better if the behaviour of these two > operators were reversed (= for equality & == for assignment) but i > suspect that Idea if even considered was quickly discarded as it would > cause major confusion to programmers who work with multiple languages
Blame it on FORTRAN: X = X + 1 IF (X .EQ. 100) GOTO 999 BASIC took a no-nonsense approach: 5 LET S = 0 10 MAT INPUT V 20 LET N = NUM 30 IF N = 0 THEN 99 40 FOR I = 1 TO N 45 LET S = S + V(I) 50 NEXT I 60 PRINT S/N 70 GO TO 5 99 END (<URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC#Examples>) Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
