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Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) [message #174934 is a reply to message #174927]

Mon, 18 July 2011 18:31

August Karlstrom
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On 2011-07-18 17:55, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> August Karlstrom wrote:
>> Don't be silly. There are several programming languages in which `='
>> denote (surprise) equality.
>
> And I have found all programs written in any of those programming languages
> to be more difficult to maintain than the rest. One such language is
> VBScript (which is particularly bad designed in other respects as well).

That's because they have been badly designed in other respects as you
mention.

> It is no coincidence that all modern higher-level programming languages make
> a syntactical and not only a contextual difference between assignment and
> comparison

Yes, that is a good thing.

> I would always consider it a result of bad language design for a (built-in)
> operator to have such very different meanings.

Agreed. The assignment symbol should ideally be a left arrow but as we
all know it is not available on a standard keyboard or in the ASCII
character set. I think `:=' is a reasonable alternative.

August

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		Re: error message I don understand By: liebling.kreuzberg@gm on Fri, 15 July 2011 17:26
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		Re: error message I don understand By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 16 July 2011 12:52
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		Re: error message I don understand By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 15 July 2011 20:35
		Re: error message I don understand By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 16 July 2011 13:30
		Re: error message I don understand By: liebling.kreuzberg@gm on Sat, 16 July 2011 19:14
		Re: error message I don understand By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 16 July 2011 21:18
		Re: error message I don understand By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 15 July 2011 16:49
		Re: error message I don understand By: liebling.kreuzberg@gm on Fri, 15 July 2011 17:25
		Re: error message I don understand By: Denis McMahon on Sat, 16 July 2011 19:28
		Re: error message I don understand By: liebling.kreuzberg@gm on Sun, 17 July 2011 08:21
		Re: error message I don understand By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sun, 17 July 2011 09:10
		Re: error message I don understand By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 17 July 2011 09:20
		Re: error message I don understand By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 17 July 2011 13:01
		Re: error message I don understand By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 17 July 2011 13:00
		Re: error message I don understand By: Denis McMahon on Sun, 17 July 2011 14:53
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		Re: error message I don understand By: liebling.kreuzberg@gm on Mon, 18 July 2011 16:11
		Re: error message I don understand By: Denis McMahon on Sun, 17 July 2011 14:52
		Re: error message I don understand By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 18 July 2011 15:19
		Re: error message I don understand By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 18 July 2011 16:01
		Re: error message I don understand By: liebling.kreuzberg@gm on Mon, 18 July 2011 16:07
		Re: error message I don understand By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 18 July 2011 16:27
		Re: error message I don understand By: liebling.kreuzberg@gm on Mon, 18 July 2011 20:12
		Re: error message I don understand By: August Karlstrom on Sun, 17 July 2011 12:55
		Re: error message I don understand By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 17 July 2011 13:03
		Re: error message I don understand By: August Karlstrom on Sun, 17 July 2011 14:50
		Re: error message I don understand By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 17 July 2011 16:26
		Re: error message I don understand By: Peter H. Coffin on Sun, 17 July 2011 16:31
		Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) By: August Karlstrom on Sun, 17 July 2011 17:47
		Re: Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 17 July 2011 18:12
		Re: Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) By: Robert Heller on Sun, 17 July 2011 18:26
		Re: Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) By: Tim Streater on Sun, 17 July 2011 19:23
		Re: Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 17 July 2011 19:50
		Re: Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) By: Robert Heller on Sun, 17 July 2011 20:17
		Re: Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 17 July 2011 20:21
		Re: Nasty language semantics By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 18 July 2011 16:17
		Re: Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) By: Tim Streater on Sun, 17 July 2011 22:06
		Re: Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) By: August Karlstrom on Sun, 17 July 2011 22:48
		Re: Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 17 July 2011 23:23
		Re: Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) By: August Karlstrom on Sun, 17 July 2011 23:51
		Re: Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 18 July 2011 01:18
		Re: Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) By: Tim Streater on Mon, 18 July 2011 08:22
		Re: Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) By: Peter H. Coffin on Mon, 18 July 2011 15:57
		Re: error message I don understand By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 18 July 2011 15:55
		Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) By: August Karlstrom on Mon, 18 July 2011 18:31
		Re: Nasty language semantics By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 18 July 2011 19:29

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