[Newbies] Assignment

[Blake]

On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:57:19 -0700, Benjamin Schroeder  
<benschroeder at acm.org> wrote:

> To clarify, "=" and "==" are different variants of comparison. Usually  
> "=" is used for value comparison - for example, two different lists that  
> had the same contents would be "=" equal. "==" means "is the same  
> object".

Right! Sorry, I had slipped into C mode there, where assignment is "=" and  
comparison is "==".