list vs tuple

[Greg Ewing]

Carl Banks wrote:
> 
> I
> remember seeing a language that had different operators for reference
> and copy assignment, but I forget what is was.

Simula is one:

  a := b     # copy assignment
  a :- b     # reference assignment

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