On 11.05.2018 09:38, Greg Ewing wrote:
Kirill Balunov wrote:
While for those who are familiar with Pascal, Icon and other languages that use this syntax, this - `:=` looks natural.
As someone familiar with Pascal, I think the similarity to the Pascal assignment operator is actually an argument *against* it. Knowing what it means in Pascal is confusing, because Pascal's ":=" is equivalent to Python's "=" (it's strictly a statement, and can't be used in expressions).
Same here. It means something different. Also coding in Pascal was annoying from the beginning with its extremely verbose syntax like begin/end etc. So, ":=" also felt like "why the hell do we need a colon in front of the equal sign?" Absolutely unnecessary bloat, like almost everything in Pascal. Maybe that's also part, why I am -1 on the proposal. Who knows...