In article <CAPTjJmqRRxSx0rhU0bShQHBAwYm6_NWb6eX3hKetjwMDADQQxg at mail.gmail.com>, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote: > Pascal tried to create a new operator, := to be read "becomes", to > deal with the whole equality-vs-assignment issue. Um, Pascal was just following the lead of ALGOL 60, roughly a decade earlier. -- Ned Deily, nad at acm.org