[fpc-devel] type discussion

[Angelo Bertolli]

>>the C-style operators += etc. should better be written as  +:= since C has =
>>as assignment, Pascal has := as assignment symbol
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>:= means "assign to", += means "add to" etc., I cannot find any
>inconsistency here.
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Also, += and such were created to make it easier to convert C code.  If 
you change this to +:= you do essentially two things:

1) Break existing code
2) Destroy any of the original purpose and usefulness of the thing in 
question.