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I can't buy into a language that uses colon for assignment.

• cschep 17y ago
  +1, I had a really hard time reading through even the simple examples!
• bkudria 17y ago
  I thought it was kinda interesting. Do any other languages do this?
  • klipt 17y ago
    Maxima does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_%28software%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_%28software%29
• rdtsc 17y ago
  I like it. Using '=' for assignment makes less sense than using <- or := or : because traditionally (i.e. mathematically) '=' work like a declaration or a constraint. Then there is the confusion between = and == that has always resulted in countless bugs. Of course, assignment is a very common operation and I would rather use 1 char (:) for it rather than two (<-, :=).
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