On 18-Oct-05, at 11:05 AM, Fournier Eric wrote:

> Observations on the assignment operator thread:
I absolutely, completely disagree about this. Changing syntax or  
lexicography to 'make adoption easier' is totally unacceptable to me.  
Using keyboard macro fudgers  is completely non-portable across  
systems and even across time.

A little fiddle here (let's make assignment be := to suit the rest of  
the world), a bit there (change ^ to return), a twist or two  
(y'know , at_put(myCollection, 42, thingy) is *so* much more familiar  
to java programmers, and we really ought to declare types statically  
so that d-flat users can understand it) and before you know it we  
have something as useless, pointless, boring, and utterly  
uninteresting as the drivel everyone else uses.

Just my opinion, of course. Not a humble one either but then most of  
you know that already.

tim
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