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		anaphor on Jan 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing R to a non-programmer in one hour Also, a language shouldn't use the same operator for declaration (initialization in dynamic languages) and assignment imho.

alecdbrooks on Jan 8, 2014 [–]

Just to be clear, R doesn't ever use the same operator for both, it uses == for comparison like C and Python. That being said, extra differentiation is a bonus.

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