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RE: Small feature request for future EU versions

• Posted by "Ricardo M. Forno" <rforno at uyuyuy.com> Oct 19, 2004
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Hi, Juergen.
Your thinking is logical, and I agree that using different operators for
different purposes *should* be clearer. But, in my experience (and it seems
some other people had the same kind of experience), == or := versus = leads
to pitfalls.
I think this is due to the fact that all these operators contain the = sign.
This problem rarely arose in APL, where the assignation symbol was a left
arrow (such as <-, but a single character).
Regards.
----- Original Message -----
From: Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 5:20 AM
Subject: Re: Small feature request for future EU versions


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> Ricardo Forno wrote:
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> <snip>
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> > Moreover, please remember (or consider) that one of the most common
pitfalls
> > in the C language is to use = instead of ==, and in Pascal and other
ones,
> > to use = instead of :=.
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> <snip>
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> That really surprises me. I was thinking that different symbols for
> different operations (comparison vs. assignment) would lead to clearer
> code and less pitfalls -- compared to Euphoria's '=', the meaning of
> which dependes on the context.
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> Regards,
>    Juergen
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