Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS

From: Alfredo Novoa <alfredo_at_ncs.es>
Date: 13 Sep 2004 07:34:16 -0700
Message-ID: <e4330f45.0409130634.116690a3@posting.google.com>

"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message news:<f161d.79843$3l3.54747_at_attbi_s03>...

> > 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.

C and their derivations, but the Pascal like syntax matches better with the mathematical notation.

> 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.

I don't see any problem. This is not a problem for any "Lexer" I know.

Can you give an example for your "is a member of" operator?

Regards
Alfredo Received on Mon Sep 13 2004 - 09:34:16 CDT