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On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 7:46 PM Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com> wrote:

It also appears that there are no cases where = can be substituted for := and not cause a syntax error. This means that ":" in ":=" is strictly redundant.

Under your proposal, this is ambiguous: 'myfun(foo=5, bar=7)'