Antoon Pardon <[email protected]>:
> the semantics of an assignment depends on the language
I've only seen one kind of assignment in the general-purpose programming
languages I know, maybe with the exception of Prolog and Rust.
So the assignment is the same everywhere, only the evaluation model
varies. In classic C, expressions evaluate to integers, double-precision
floating-point numbers or pointers. In Python, all expressions evaluate
pointers.
For example, in C, the expression
1 + 2
takes two integers and produces a third one. By contrast, the same
Python expression takes two pointers and produces a third one (while
possibly generating a number of objects in the process).
Analogously, C lvalues can store various types of value. In Python, all
"lvalues" store a pointer.
I haven't wanted to use the word "value" above because it is ambiguous
and confusing in the context of this discussion.
Marko
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