The stately := operator feature proposal

[Byron Heads]

On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 14:41:09 UTC, Byron Heads wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 14:27:13 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>>
>> I still like:
>>
>> 	x := 1
>>
>> for a declaration and initialization with type inference.
>
>
> Could be used for assigning from tuples.
>
> iVal, sVal := returnsIntAndString();
>
> would have to decide on how to handle this
> x := 1;
> x := y * 7;  // error or assignment?
>
> more of an issue with tuples then single lvalues

could also be used without the type inference

int x;
x, string s := returnIntAndString();
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int wx, wy;
...
wx, wy := window.position;