simultaneous assignment

[John Salerno]

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

> But my question (sorry, it may not have been clear) was more along the 
> line of : "why do you worry about identity in the given snippet ?". 

Actually, I kind of thought that maybe it *didn't* matter in this 
particular example anyway, so my question was meant to be more general 
than I might have written it. It seems like the identity issue can be a 
problem in certain cases, although I can't think of a case right now! :)