Re: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Jim Langston wrote:

> Well, to be honest, the statement actually read
> 
> a=b=c=d=0=e
> 
> To this day I don't know if that was a typo on the programmers part, or 
>something
> the compiler could actually figure out.  I think that is why I hate it, the 
>first
> time I ever saw it, it was abused.  (To me this would be saying that A, B, C 
>and D
> are equal to the boolean expression 0 = e but I just don't know).
> 

This statement would only be valid in BASIC, as far as I know.  In BASIC
when you do an assignment, only the first = sign is assignment, the rest
are comparisons.  (At least, this is the way I currently understand it)

Therefore, this statement would equate to this:

      a = (b=(c=(d=(0=e))))

But, again, I prefer having a different operator for assignment vs.
comparison, as I detailed in the last post.



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