Re: assign to magic name-of-function variable instead of "return"

[Johan Vromans]

James Mastros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:36:59PM -0600, David L. Nicol wrote:
> And I always hated that about VB and Pascal -- you can assign to the magic
> variable, but can't modify it.

That was before the invention of auto-assignment operators. In the
70s, Burroughs Extended Algol did it this way. So it would be
perfectly okay to write

  sub foo {
    foo = ...;
    ...;
    foo += 5;
  }

-- Johan