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[Michael Dyck]

On 16-11-21 12:40 PM, Joe Wicentowski wrote:
>
> Thanks very much for your reply!  If ":=" is not an "operator," by
> your helpful definition, then is there a category like "symbol,"
> "delimiter," or at worst, "thingy," that it *does* rightly belong to?

Yup, Appendix A lets you call it a "symbol". (More specifically, a "terminal 
symbol" or a "delimiting terminal symbol", but those are too cumbersome for 
the blank in your sample sentence.)

-Michael