"Dale Strickland-Clark" <dale at riverhall.NOSPAMco.uk> wrote in message news:8tb3stc5jcqfc0mh8eijmon4pnfa501loj at 4ax.com... > So how about an alternative assignment operator that can't be confused > with equality but which yeilds the assigned value? > > Pascal uses := Nope. Pascal is like Python, it doesn't have an assignment operator.