> there's no reason the something else couldn't be `:=` (which has plenty of prior art, even if it's fallen out of favour recently). Pascal was my first langua

> there's no reason the something else couldn't be `:=` (which has plenty of prior art, even if it's fallen out of favour recently). Pascal was my first language, so when I first learned C (my second language) I actually found the =, == pair much less intuitive than the :=, = pair.