Why D languiage creator decided to NOT fix this?

Sat Jun 29 03:05:54 UTC 2019

On Friday, 28 June 2019 at 23:29:38 UTC, Why not? wrote:
> During creation of new language it was so simple to fix this 
> serious flaw "once for always"; simply by adopting ':=' 
> assignment operator from Pascal, and by leaving - as 'equality 
> testers'  - BOTH single '=' and double '==' "equal" signs.

I'm personally glad that D uses the familiar '=' operator for
assignment.