OpenEuphoria

Re: Small feature request for future EU versions

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Oct 16, 2004
• 659 views

August wrote:

>> posted by: Vincent <darkvincentdude at yahoo.com>
>>
>> It would be nice to have the '==' (equal comparison) relational
>> operator implemented in future versions of EU. Many programming
>> languages have this operator for equal comparision, while EU
>> uses equal(). I doubt anyone will comfuse '==' with the '='
>> assignment operator. And if this is a compatibility issue,
>> keep the equal() ruitine until people agree that it is no longer
>> nessasary for backwards compatibility. What do you all think about
>> that?
>
> Generally I think using `=' for assignment and `==' for comparison sucks! In
> mathematics `=' has been used for ages as a relation symbol. It's the
> assignment statement that needs (may need) special treatment. The natural
> symbol for assignment is a "left arrow", but unfortunately it's not
> available in ASCII and e.g. ` x <- y' can easilly be mixed up with `x < -y'.

Assignment could be written as e.g.  x := y

Regards,
   Juergen