# Aliases for \`=\` and \`==\`

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/aliases-for-and/60004>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** proposal\
**Created:** [April 25, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/aliases-for-and/60004 "2021-04-25T21:35:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![D\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@D\_A](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/D_A)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/aliases-for-and/60004/17 "2021-04-26T18:49:29Z")

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Same, and for people, like me, who use a lot of Unicode characters, make `←` (for example, same as `<-`) a natural alias for this `:=`. I also always feel strange when an equality test is longer than an inequality one in my code (`≠` versus `==`), making me often choose to test inequalities to avoid mistakes (confusion with `=`)…

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