agree for => but how many people use pascal eiffel etc? (go has a chance)
that's a reminder of an old, fading epoch, bland IDEs, hard-to-crunch fonts BDL Guido once remarked in a pycon talk that today agencies would've charged you a high price to tell you what the word python might tickle in the subconscious of the common user, we should maybe write on what ":=" tickles in the mind of most programmers Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Mauritius The fact that := will be familiar to many people (especially if they > know Go, Pascal or Eiffel etc) is a point in its favour. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_%28computer_science%29#Notation > > The => arrow puts the arguments around the "wrong" way compared to > regular assignment: > > name = expression > expression => name > > Although personally I like that order, many people did not and I think > Guido ruled it out very early in the discussion. > > Also it may be too easily confused with <= or >= or the -> syntax from > annotations. >
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