Multiple assignment and the expression on the right side

Andrea Griffini agriff at tin.it
Tue Feb 21 02:15:21 EST 2006


While I think that the paragraph is correct still there is IMO indeed
the (low) risk of such a misunderstanding. The problem is that "the
statement executes" can IMO easily be understood as "the statements
execute" (especially if your background includes only languages where
there's no multiple assignment) and the world "single" is also
frequently used in phrases like "every single time" where can indeed
denote a context of plurality.
Adding "just" or "only" would be IMO an great improvement by focusing
the attention on the key point, as it would be IMO better using
"rightmost" instead of "right-hand" (in this case even saving a char
;-) )

Just two foreign cents




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