> "MJR" == Mark J Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MJR> On 2003-01-21 at 11:09:21, Thom Boyer wrote:
>> One of the most... er, *interesting*, dodges I've seen in this area
>> is the one used by Squeak (a Smalltalk variant). Squeak spells
>> assignment with an underscore ("_"), but the
--- Thom Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Smylers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>
> > And an alternative
> > spelling for the assignment operator[*0] doesn't strike me as
> something
> > Perl is really missing:
> >
> > $msg <~ 'Hello there';
> > $msg = 'Hello there';
>
>
> I still re
Thom Boyer wrote:
> Smylers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>
> > And an alternative spelling for the assignment operator[*0] doesn't
> > strike me as something Perl is really missing:
> >
> > $msg <~ 'Hello there';
> > $msg = 'Hello there';
>
> I still remember the first time I saw a com
On 2003-01-21 at 11:09:21, Thom Boyer wrote:
> One of the most... er, *interesting*, dodges I've seen in this area is the
> one used by Squeak (a Smalltalk variant). Squeak spells assignment with an
> underscore ("_"), but the Squeak system *draws* it as a left-pointing arrow.
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