Sujet : Re: on changing paradigm of assign call
De : janis_papanagnou+ng (at) *nospam* hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou)
Groupes : comp.lang.cDate : 08. Sep 2024, 06:10:59
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On 02.09.2024 03:45, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Sun, 01 Sep 2024 16:15:37 +0200, fir wrote:
int x = foo()
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annoying is especially this "=" sign as this is not quite assignment
imo
The original symbol as used in Algol-like languages was “:=”.
Well, for assignments that's true. But the '=' symbol has also been
used in Algol 68 as an identity operator (to define constants), and
above int x = foo() can be interpreted as such.
Janis
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