= signifies Equation, a persistent assignment. Any update to the value on the after which any change to the value results in all dependent values being recomputed.
:= signifies a standard one shot assignment.
The runtime behavior is easy enough to implement, less than 100 lines of Pascal. I worried that the code for a language that supported it would be unreadable, like FORTH, only worse. Imagine if Excel spreadsheets were plain text source code.
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The runtime behavior is easy enough to implement, less than 100 lines of Pascal. I worried that the code for a language that supported it would be unreadable, like FORTH, only worse. Imagine if Excel spreadsheets were plain text source code.