On 06/27/2011 10:34 AM, Berry Boessenkool wrote:
Hey all, I learned that using the equals sign "=" to assign objects is generally OK, but will not work in some cases. As I always use "<-" for assignments, I have not encoutered any problems. Could somebody provide an example or explanation, why getting used to "=" is not a good idea? Or is it? Thanks ahead, Berry
As a top-level expression, it probably doesn't matter too much. I always use <- myself. Here is an example where = does not equal <-
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