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[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Mathematica also has an === operator. And :=.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's also very language specific, like Pascal/Delphi also have ":=" for assignments and "=" for comparison, etc

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

That makes much more sense than the other way.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What does the walrus operator do?

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I think it's called 'delayed assignment'. So it is almost like =, but you can use arguments to define functions, f[a_]:=a+2.