small idea appeared in my mind, im not saying its good to use its rather bad but is curious

some noticed than when comparing this == is not best, but you cant compare with = say if(a=2) {} becouse = is assign

the remark is in fact the assigning = could be get rid of.. in fact
thsi assigning is also not best , so progbably a=2 as compare is
better that a=2 as assigning

hovever this assigning is also not worst and it have long tradition
and there is question if something really better than = asssigning could be done

one option would be just use spaces like
x 100, y 200
but then space for vector arithmetic is gone..

x:100 y:200 could be considered but this ":" is good in some other
ciricumstances (also its probably not better than = if not worse)

some could use parenthesis
a(100) b(200) but im not sure in case in smoe more complex
expressions

a(sin(x*p)*20) dont look to much readable
pascal one is to long assign is to common to use two symbols
a := 2*b

so for now i dont see something better than assign,

there is yet option of puttin this assign sign on the leff

\x 200
*a 200
:a 200

i got no claryfied opinion on this yet

On Saturday, 15 July 2023 at 10:53:51 UTC+1, fir wrote:

> the remark is in fact the assigning = could be get rid of.. in fact
> thsi assigning is also not best , so progbably a=2 as compare is
> better that a=2 as assigning
>
> hovever this assigning is also not worst and it have long tradition
> and there is question if something really better than = asssigning could be done

In Algol 60, an assignment is (was?) a := 2, making '=' free for comparisons.

sobota, 15 lipca 2023 o 13:14:39 UTC+2 bert napisał(a):
> On Saturday, 15 July 2023 at 10:53:51 UTC+1, fir wrote:
>
> > the remark is in fact the assigning = could be get rid of.. in fact
> > thsi assigning is also not best , so progbably a=2 as compare is
> > better that a=2 as assigning
> >
> > hovever this assigning is also not worst and it have long tradition
> > and there is question if something really better than = asssigning could be done
> In Algol 60, an assignment is (was?) a := 2, making '=' free for comparisons.

too long, overally thats all damn hard..again when thinking on some things
i break again my opinion that spaces ahould go for vector arithmetics
- it probably should but not always, sometimes for separators - and many things
must be done by cerfully chosen operator precendences and complex syntax
convolitions i think

On 15/07/2023 12:14, bert wrote:
> In Algol 60, an assignment is (was?) a := 2, making '=' free for comparisons.

Pascal ditto. And APL has a special left arrow character - but then APL
has a special character for _everything_!

But that ship has sailed decades ago. It can't be changed now.

Andy