On 10/17/05, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar.hojland at linalco.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:22:26AM +0200, Cees De Groot wrote:
> > I like it too. Well, to be precise: I like the left arrow.
> >
> > What I emphatically do NOT like, is the (ab)use of the ASCII
> > underscore character for that purpose :).
>
> I feel the need to clarify that I'm not particularly fond of
> automagically getting an arrow when I type a _, but that I'm more than
> happy with _ as an assignment operator, in its correct visual
> representation (ie _).
>
> > So my opinion is to get rid of it, and if people really want to have a
> > left arrow assignment operator, make something that uses Unicode char
> > U2190...

My vote is for anything that takes one character to type. I don't care
if it's _ or = (which I know is already taken), but personally I have
never liked ':=', ever since I learned Pascal. Assignment is such a
common thing to do that it should take the least amount of effort
possible. Typing ':=' is a pain.

Jim
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