Greetings all,
I've quite taken to the short-circuit evaluation idiom. I just have a quick
question about its behavior. Why does
boolexpr && boolvar = false
throw an error ("syntax: invalid assignment location"), but
boolexpr && (boolvar = false)
work just fine? The documentation
(http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/control-flow/#short-circuit-evaluation)
doesn't quite mention this point, though the parentheses are used in the
examples at the end of the section.
I'm just curious. I don't have much background in programming (but will
have to, as I'm beginning graduate study in statistics this coming fall --
I thought I'd be an early adopter of something for once), so please humor
me if this is a silly question.
Thank you,
D
