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From: Vinzent Hoefler <JeLlyFish.software@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: status of Ada STL?
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Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote:

>Certainly ":=" is better than "=" for assignment, and replacing "=" with
>"==" for equality is just stupid. But I've thought for decades that the
>assignment symbol should not contain the "=" character at all. "<-"
>would probably be good.

Well. VHDL does it in a similar way to indicate signal assignments:

Bus_Address (7 downto 0) <= "00000000";

But it's still using ":=" for variable assignments. I guess, this has
a reason there...


Vinzent.