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Reputation: 19353

Is there a BASIC dialect which uses "==" as the comparison operator?

Anyone who grew up on BASIC, and later switched to another language, had a real difficulty getting used to "(a == b)" rather than "(a = b)" to test for equality.

Is there a dialect of BASIC which uses the "==" operator for comparisons rather than overloading "=" for assignments and comparisons? Or - and maybe this is stretching it - is there an implementation which might be easily hackable to use this behavior (to change the tokens recognized by the parser?)

This can be a DOS/Windows/Linux implementation, and doesn't have to be terribly fully-featured. (I'm using this for instructional purposes.)

Upvotes: 4

Views: 204

Answers (1)

BnWasteland
BnWasteland

Reputation: 2119

Isn't the reason for the double-equal in algol family to distinguish equality from assignment? What, then, would you have us do with the "LET" keyword? Abandon it? It was my favorite keyword! So permissive...

http://www.freebasic.net/

Open source, FTW!

Upvotes: 2

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