Re: vote on := for assignments and in expressions

On Tuesday 29 June 2004 05:37 pm, Mark Hahn wrote:
> The vote for a symbol choice was a decisive victory for " := ".  The
> final vote count was 3 in favor and 2 against in the issue of using
> assignments in expressions if we use the same := for assignments
> everywhere (I didn't vote).  After the discussion I realized that I would
> not support assignments as expressions at all without using the same :=
> for all assignments everywhere since people like Paul would use only :=
> anyway.
>
> Since using := for assignment everywhere was not a choice in the original
> voting, I want to start a new vote on that issue.  Please vote FOR or
> AGAINST changing the symbol = to := for the assignment statement and
> allowing it to be used in expressions also.
>

I vote AGAINST ':='.

I vote FOR '='.

I vote that assignment NOT be an expression.

In other words, I vote for Python.

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Jonathan Gardner
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