[Python-Dev] SyntaxError: can't assign to function call

[Neal Becker]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> On 8/10/06, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:
>> It makes just as much sense as assigning to an array access, and the
>> semantics would be pretty similar.
> 
> No. Array references (x[i]) and attribute references (x.a) represent
> "locations". Function calls represent values. This is no different
> than the distinction between lvalues and rvalues in C.
> 

Except this syntax is valid in c++ where X() is a constructor call:

X(whatever) += 2; is (or can be) valid c++