From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Carbon Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:43:44 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <874jxwyu7z.fsf@nightsong.com> References: <993af397-b615-44e7-ae8d-ec706f9b6098n@googlegroups.com> <5f819cdd-e763-4a96-aed5-545d57edac23n@googlegroups.com> <877d2u21ps.fsf@nightsong.com> <8735di1y6a.fsf@nightsong.com> <87ler9ywye.fsf@nightsong.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="29dde52fbcac84634dec39f37e61d211"; logging-data="779791"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/sJWIhiwk/XytL5yRKuzcu" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/fedi5XcK/R8ARr75EN9Npg6GRc= sha1:7JuFOjdJC0pQVC/SRqiV2VQgpQY= Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:64242 List-Id: John McCabe writes: > as the use of "=" for assignment, and "==" for comparison, has caused > numerous issues and head-scratching over the years. If that is your only concrete objection to Carbon, you could have written a diplomatic suggestion to use := instead of = as an assignment operator, as Go does. > You are quite right; I have little clue what Carbon is That acknowledgment might help you understand why your thread got closed. Unrelated: I made an error when I wrote about Go earlier. I wrote that it has built-in cooperative multitasking. But the multitasking is preemptive rather than cooperative.