[Tutor] "=" invalid syntax ?

Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 2 12:52:13 EST 2004


orbitz at ezabel.com wrote:
> I just learned this recently, but if you say = is a
> statement then you
> would imagine:
> 
> a = b = 2 to not work. = is actually special cased
> for this to work.
> however
> a = (b = 2) does not work.  There is some 'magic'
> some people might say
> to =, but I think a = b = .. is the only excpetion
> to the = is a
> statement operator rule.

Yeah, it's just an exception to the rule.

Daniel Ehrenberg

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