Re: = vs := and = vs ==
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) May 07, 2014
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_tom said...
What would it take to allow := in an assignment statement? (Phix by Lomax already does this.)
I do not think this is necessary. I don't think many people get confused by assignment vs comparison.
_tom said...
What would it take to allow = to compare atoms and == to compare objects?
What is confusing, however, is why = cannot compare objects while equal() can. (Can't = just be shorthand for equal()?) IIRC, allowing = to compare objects in if/while statements is relatively trivial. I believe it's a simple matter of changing the op (opEQUAL?) routine in the interpreter. At least, this was true in Euphoria 2.x and 3.x. I haven't spent much time in the Euphoria 4.x source code, but I would welcome this change.
-Greg
