what does := means simply?

[Bob van der Poel]

On Thu, May 17, 2018, 8:45 PM Ben Finney, <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>
wrote:

> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes:
>
> > If you want to *really* see code that is hard to port, you should try
> > porting an Inform 7 program to another language. Any other language.
>
> Does porting Inform 7 code to Inform 6 count? They are very different
> languages :-)
>
>
My least favorite remains APL.