anything like C++ references?

[Stephen Horne]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:48:54 -0700, Tom Plunket <tomas at fancy.org>
wrote:

>Stephen Horne wrote:
>
>> True enough. And if someone creates a language in which '+' does
>> subtraction, I'm sure people could get used to that to. Doesn't mean
>> it's the right thing, though.
>
>It's often more useful to do what users want than it is to
>blindly adhere to what's right and correct.

True enough. The issue of how assignment is represented is trivial and
unimportant in the scheme of things.