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Murray Jorgensen wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>This seems as good a place as any to gripe about
the R/S assignment symbol
<br>"<-" ! What absolute fiend said: "now let's see, this is the
symbol that
<br>will be most used in this language, so let's represent it by a
<br>two-character string, and further, let's have the two characters in
<br>different cases so that it will require a change of case mid-stream!".</blockquote>
That depends on which keyboard people use. In a portuguese keyboard "<-"
requires the same typing effort as "_" or even "=". And objectively,
it's a fact that "<-" makes the code easier to read than "_".
<p>Alberto
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IPIMAR - Institute of Fisheries and Sea Research
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