On Wed, Aug 10, 2016, at 07:59, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > The use of = also has a long history... FORTRAN (where the comparison > was .EQ.), BASIC (granted, K&K required assignment to start with the > keyword LET, so the use of = was mainly a delimiter between target and > expression being assigned).
Visual Basic actually uses = for both assignment and comparison *without* the Let keyword, it gets by on the fact that assignment is not an expression. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
