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<HR><H2>Re: Assignment operators</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thu Mar 16 14:48:34 1995
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From: foxen@netcom.com (Foxen)
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 11:42:09 -0800 (PST)

If you want to have assignment in expressions, then you cannot use &lt;- as
an assignment operator.  Consider the following program that is meant to
count from -10 to -5.

a&lt;--5;
while (a&lt;-5) {
  a&lt;-a+1;
}

	- Foxen

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