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		wholinator2 49 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The shadows lurking in the equations I'd seen the := in programming for years but always thought it was basically just =. Thank you for your explanation!

roywiggins 49 days ago [–]

I will say that in programming it's commonly used as assignment, which isn't quite the same thing as definition. golang uses it to declare variables so that's pretty close

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