From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2002-07-10T19:48:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Case expressions and LHS of assignment....

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> |A good thing because it would lead to tangled code, "giving too much
> |rope to for the programmer to hang themselves" etc, or some other
> |reason?
>
> Not allowing lhs as a result is good, because of the combination of
> the following:
>
>   * it's too hard to implement.
>   * it's too abusable (too much rope to hang yourself).
>   * it makes the language comprecated without helping it much.

Yes, I think I'd agree with those.  The gain/complexity trade-off is a
very strong case for no change. Thank you for your response.
>
> 							matz.
>
        Hugh