[fpc-pascal] Changing variable in conditional

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
> 
>> [a, b, c] := (d = e);
>>
>> would have been minimally acceptable.
> 
> Did you really mean that or did you mean 
> 
>  [a, b, c] := (d := e);
> 
> ? :-)

:-) I meant what I wrote: a comparison on the right producing a Boolean 
which is assigned to three variables in a list. The parentheses were to 
try to make it a bit clearer, and I note that a Perl list is in 
parentheses rather than brackets.

I'm not saying I like it, or that it's Pascal. But something like that 
would probably upset the fewest people that matter. Perhaps I should 
have said

[a, b, c] += Ord(d = e);

:-)

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
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