On 02/01/2019 04:29, Stefan Ram wrote:
   A slide from Ben Deane's talk about C++:

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|       ODD THING #1: ASSIGNMENTS ARE EXPRESSIONS       |
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|  Assignment as an expression is a historical choice.  |
|          It's doing us no favours today.              |
|         Assignment should be a statement.             |
|                                                       |
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   "Easy To Use, Hard to Misuse: Declarative Style In C++" (talk),
   Ben Deane (2018-05)

   (Yes, he wrote "favours" in this way.)


Probably because he speaks English and not American.

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