From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2009-02-26T05:18:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

Chad Perrin wrote:
> I'm leaning more toward = being used for both, and some other signifier
> determining how the expression should be evaluated.

What should that other signifier be? I guess you could say that assignment has 
no value (instead of returning the assigned value as it usually does) and 
then interpret = as checking for equality when it's used in a place where a 
(boolean) value is expected and as assignment when it's not. But I imagine 
that could become confusing as well. Also it'd make it impossible to do 
things like "while item = get_item" (which may or may not be a good thing 
depending on your point of view, of course).


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