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Subject: Re: Where did /= come from?
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Maybe this is why C / C++ programmers dislike the ":=" symbol for
assignment. They are bound to think that

    a := b

is equivalent to

    a = (a) : (b)

and the right hand side is missing the "cond ?" prefix.