On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Albert van der Horst <alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote: > In article <mailman.1272.1382221693.18130.python-l...@python.org>, > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >>Pascal tried to create a new operator, := to be read "becomes"... > > This suggests that Pascal went against established practice. > This is false.
As acknowledged earlier in the thread, my "create" was a poor choice of word. I didn't mean that Pascal was the first language to do it, just that it's a language that did that and is likely to be reasonably knowable. I'd rather pick examples people have a chance of recognizing than ones they won't, if the former are available :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
