From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-08-02T11:20:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04303] Re: basic ops in some languages

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:04299] basic ops in some languages"
    on 00/08/01, faatdilac@my-deja.com <faatdilac@my-deja.com> writes:

|Why the following works in Perl:
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|$a = ($b = 2) * 3;
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|and Ruby:
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|a = (b = 2) * 3
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|but not in Python:
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|a = (b = 2) * 3

Because unlike other languages, assignment is not an expression in
Python.  Ask at comp.lang.python for detail.

							matz.