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Or, put another way, statement-based languages vs. expression-based languages. Strictly speaking, they can be equivalent, but each pushes code in different dire
by silentbicycle 16y ago
Or, put another way, statement-based languages vs. expression-based languages. Strictly speaking, they can be equivalent, but each pushes code in different directions by default. (And for the whole "= means mutate-variable" thing, I think "<-" is a good operator.)
- mahyarm 16y agoSqueak smalltalk has the <- character. It's actually the '_' character but displays as a one character width left arrow. You can also use :=