From: Calvelo Daniel <dcalvelo@...2.fr>
Date: 2000-08-02T08:34:31+00:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04309] Re: basic ops in some languages

faatdilac@my-deja.com wrote:
: Why the following works in Perl:
:
: $a = ($b = 2) * 3;
:
: and Ruby:
:
: a = (b = 2) * 3
:
: but not in Python:
:
: a = (b = 2) * 3

In Python '=' is an assignment *statement*, not an operator. The fact that
you can chain assignments is a feature of the statement, not a side effect
of the '=' operator having a return value (that is the case of Perl and 
Ruby.)

HTH, DCA.

-- Daniel Calvelo Aros
     calvelo@lifl.fr