Assignment Versus Equality

[BartC]

On 26/06/2016 16:47, Cousin Stanley wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>
>> ....
>> but I'm sure we'd have a revolt
>> if Python comparison operators looked like:
>>
>> a .eq. b
>> a .ne. b
>> a .gt. b .or. c .lt. d
>> a .le. b .and. c .ge. d
>> ....
>
>   As someone who learned fortran in the mid 1960s
>   and pounded a  lot  of fortran  code in the 1970s,
>   the code above seems very readable ....

I did a year of it in the 1970s. Looks funny in lower case though.

(Note, for those who don't know (old) Fortran, that spaces and tabs are 
not significant. So those dots are needed, otherwise "a eq b" would be 
parsed as "aeqb".)

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Bartc