The stately := operator feature proposal

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 02:19 +0200, MrzlganeE wrote:
[…]
> In places where I write a bunch of short mathy code, I do not 
> want to use 'auto'. The := operator would allow to declare a 
> variable, deduce its type, and define its value.
> 
> void main() {
>      x := 1;
>      y := 2.0;
>      z := x * y;
>      y = 3.0;
> }
[…]
> 
>      for (i := 0; i < 24; i++) {
>      }

Go does exactly this, and it is good.

Less is more.

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