On Sunday 16 August 2009 12:18:11 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > In any case, after half a century of left-from-right assignment, I think > it's worth the experiment in a teaching language or three to try it the > other way. The closest to this I know of is the family of languages > derived from Apple's Hypertalk, where you do assignment with: > > put somevalue into name > > (Doesn't COBOL do something similar?)
Yup. move banana to pineapple. move accountnum in inrec to accountnum in outrec. move corresponding inrec to outrec. It should all be upper case of course... I cannot quite recall, but I have the feeling that in the second form, "of" was also allowed instead of "in", but it has been a while now so I am probably wrong. The move was powerful - it would do conversions for you based on the types of the operands - it all "just worked". - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
