Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS

"Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:kMedndG4GJUoL9ncRVn-hA_at_comcast.com...
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> "Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message
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> > Realistically, you'd probably stick with == for equality-check,
> > to disambiguate it from assignment.
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> Or use ":=" for assignment, freeing up "=" for equality-check.

Yeah, I've thought of that. I have two objections, though.

1. the most popular languages use = for assignment and == for equality.
2. That won't quite work for the syntax I'm envisioning, because I'm have high hopes for : as the "is a member of " operator.

Marshall Received on Sun Sep 12 2004 - 19:41:47 CDT