From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f51e93dacd9c7fca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-17 03:32:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dialin-145-254-041-111.arcor-ip.NET!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A.Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: status of Ada STL? Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:37:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <3D0D18D5.2020601@telepath.com> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-041-111.arcor-ip.net (145.254.41.111) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1024309942 8029594 145.254.41.111 (16 [77047]) User-Agent: KNode/0.4 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26136 Date: 2002-06-18T00:37:40+02:00 List-Id: Russ wrote: > Take a look at how Python handles the "=" vs. "==" "problem". They > simply do not allow assignment inside an "if" test. Problem solved. But then there is no necessity in having two different symbols for equality and assignment. Make both "="! However the single rationale why assignment should be denoted as equality and equality as something else, is the gospel from FORTRAN. As we all know, God programmed the Universe in FORTRAN-IV. (:-)) -- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de