while (a=b()) ...

[Magnus L. Hetland]

esuzm at primrose.csv.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Clover) writes:

> Nathan Clegg (nathan at islanddata.com) wrote:
> 
> > The ideal, of course, would be:

[Lots of stuff that has been debated to death several times already]

>   c= a+b: (a= 1; b= 2)

The use of a colon would probably make the parser very confused in
structures like while and if, where the colon is already part of the
syntax...

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