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Comment by wholinator2

5 hours ago

I'd seen the := in programming for years but always thought it was basically just =. Thank you for your explanation!

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roywiggins  4 hours 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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