Re: [If/then and sequences...]
Bernie wrote:
> "C" uses == ( double equal signs ) for comparison
> and = ( single equal sign ) for assignment
> which makes good sense and I think would be easy to implement.
I strongly disagree. It's too far easy to type '=' for '=='. I've always
considered this to be a Very Bad Thing in C and C-derived languages. I don't
have anything nice to say about '=:', either.
On the other hand, Euphoria's implementation of '=' is, while logically
consistant, quite irritating. I rarely (intentionally) used '=' on a
sequence. On the other hand, I'm constantly using the equal() operator.
It's a source of confusion to new users of the language, and is one of the
few things in the language that I *really* despise. I really wish that
Robert had instead written eq/lt/gt functions, for the few times that sort
of thing is needed. I suspect that if Robert changed the current behavior,
very little code would break.
-- David Cuny
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