? assignments are not expressions ?

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• Subject: ? assignments are not expressions ?
• From: tom@...
• Date: 2001年3月26日 02:54:20 -0000

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I expected to be able to do:
 while ( X = read() )
 do
 print ( X )
 end
But it seems I must do:
 X = read()
 while X
 do
 print ( X )
 X = read()
 end
Shouldn't an assignment be an expression
evaluating to the value assigned? It seems
this could be done without breaking anything...?
-Tom

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