Oh, please... If you don't know short notations in e.g. math, it will look like line noise. The analogy is halting because he used natural languages -- he prob

Oh, please... If you don't know short notations in e.g. math, it will look like line noise. The analogy is halting because he used natural languages -- he probably didn't want to insult you by explaining curried functions and CS... :-) And yes, I needed masak's explanation, too. The Pascal ":=" brings back happy memories of childhood...