In article <18063 at haddock.ima.isc.com> karl at kelp.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes: > `:=' is almost as clumsy to type as that > stupid regexp notation `\( \)'. I agree! That's why Q lets you use = in 99% of the cases where you'd use it in C. You only have to resort to := when you want to use the assigned value in an expression. ---Dan