[fpc-devel] Proposal: Multiple assignments

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Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com>:

> Well... in C a test for equality is always "==".

No, it's not. There's also strcmp(). ;)

> So, when reading it 
> (and not having read a Pascal code some minutes before :P ) one should 
> recognize without problems whether it's an assignment or a comparison 
> expression (it's another story that many people - including me - don't 
> recognize it that easily ^^)

a=b=c
a==b=c
a=b==c
a==b==c

C's main flaw is that assignments are expressions as well. And I'm not sure, I'd spot the difference immediately.


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