<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:04 AM Barry Warsaw <<a href="mailto:barry@python.org">barry@python.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Apr 18, 2018, at 10:43, MRAB <<a href="mailto:python@mrabarnett.plus.com" target="_blank">python@mrabarnett.plus.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Some languages use '=' for assignment, others for equality, but do you know of a language that uses ':=' for equality' or '==' for assignment?<br>
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Clearly we should take a page from the ternary operator and make the assignment expression operator just ugly enough that people won’t overuse it. Since I can’t have ‘>>’ or ‘<>’ back, I propose ‘=======‘. <br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
go-ahead-count-‘em-every-time-ly y’rs,<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>8 of course. to "match" what merge conflict markers look like. ;)</div><div><br></div><div>php already uses === for something, we should just use =========== so we can say "it goes to eleven", ending the operator war once and for all. :P</div><div><br></div><div>-gps</div><div><br></div></div></div>