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From: MALAISE Pascal <MALAISE_Pascal@stna.dgac.fr>
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Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language
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Russ wrote:

> I think Python has an extremely simple solution to this so-called
> "problem". Python simply disallows assignment inside an "if"
> conditional.
Does Python allow assignement in some other instructions, like a return
statement?
What about "return(A=5)"?
Does the reader (and the compiler) have to check the return type of the
function to know if the value is boolean (A = 5) or integer (5, also
assigned to A)?
This would be very ambiguous.
 
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