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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:31:41 +0200
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randhol@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no (Preben Randhol) writes:

>> Because "=" is the simplest fricking symbol that could possibly be used
> 
> If you think about it it is more important that your if statments are
> correct than your assignments. Just think about this C line:
> 
>    if (C = crap) then ...
> 
> and of course it will always be true and will compile. I would rather
> have = for this than assignments.

This problem isn't caused by the symbol '=' per se, but by the fact
assignments are expressions, not statements, in C.

Python (another language which uses '=' and '==') gives you a
diagnostic in such cases.