Python and Flaming Thunder

[Sam Denton]

John Salerno wrote:
> "Dave Parker" <daveparker at flamingthunder.com> wrote in message 
> news:a95c09d9-94c3-4dac-9439-9176038d93d9 at w8g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
> On May 20, 7:05 pm, Collin <collinye... at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
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> For example, consider the two statements:
> 
>      x = 8
>      x = 10
> 
> The reaction from most math teachers (and kids) was "one of those is
> wrong because x can't equal 2 different things at the same time".
> ---
> 
> Aw, come on. I'm a novice programmer but even after reading the most basic 
> of introductions to a programming language I can tell that x is being 
> assigned one value, then another.

I've long believed that '=' should be banned from programming languages. 
  Use '==' for equality tests, and ':=' for assignments.