Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:41:47 GMT
Message-ID: <f161d.79843$3l3.54747_at_attbi_s03>


"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
> news:%I_0d.30754$MQ5.23684_at_attbi_s52...
> > 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 Mon Sep 13 2004 - 02:41:47 CEST

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