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<HR><H2>assignments as expressions</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thu Sep 22 19:36:33 1994
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From: deforest@netcom.com (Robert de Forest)
To: coldstuff@netcom.com
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 10:53:37 -0700 (PDT)

It has been said that having assignments be expressions will not affect those
 who do not wish to use them this way, but I beg to differ.

Just as Geust@Lambda.

I don't think the point was half as much to enforce a style as to prevent an
 error, specifically the miss-typing of == as = causing masive dammage.

Anyway...

My own preference would be to make the expressions. Cold is case-sensitive, so
 how much can it care what a good typer I am? :)

I still belive the change should be made and released under a different name.


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