On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 2:52 AM, David Johnston <pol...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Chris Travers-5 wrote > > However = as assignment is particularly odd to me for two reasons. First > > it is not ambiguous but it leads to difficult to read constructs, like > > this: > > > > out_var = in_left = in_right; > > Agreed but the genie is already out of the bottle and I am OK with > something > at the "lint/check_function" level trying to enforce good coding habits as > opposed to changing the language to prohibit what has now been allowed for > many years. > My preference would be that at some point we start adding warnings when = is used as an assignment. Such warnings could be turned off. Then at some later point we can decide whether to change the behavior. A decision to changing the language would be different if such behavior had given warnings for several years prior. Best Wishes, Chris Travers
