Assignment as operator

["Paul C. Anagnostopoulos" <paul@...>]

>This could plausibly return any of 9, 10 or nil,
depending on which set
>of semantics you decide on --- which to me is a good reason not
to
>decide on any of them, and go for the simple but intuitive approach
of
>not having assingment be an operator.
>Duncan Cross

Once you made assignment an operator, you would have to define it as
evaluating to its right operand.

~~ Paul



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