Curious assignment behaviour

[John Roth]

"Richard Brodie" <R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> "Dale Strickland-Clark" <dale at riverhall.NOSPAMco.uk> wrote in message
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> > So how about an alternative assignment operator that can't be confused
> > with equality but which yeilds the assigned value?
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> > Pascal uses :=
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> Nope. Pascal is like Python, it doesn't have an assignment operator.

But it does have a *syntax* that means assignment, just like Python.
I believe that is what the poster had in mind.

There are a few cases where I would like to do an assignment in the
middle of an expression; the much abused lambda function comes to
mind immediately.

I kind of like ":=".

John Roth
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