conditional expressions (RE: Loop-and-a-half (Re: Curious assignment behaviour))

[Paul Rubin]

Ian Parker <parker at gol.com> writes:
> >How did Algol 60 deal with this?   
> 
> to excess, and with a more complicated parser, I imagine:
> 
> 
> Because statements are expressions in Algo68, the 'if' clause returns a
> value, and can be used as both a statement and an expression, and either
> can be squeezed onto one line or spread across multiple lines.

Algol 60 wasn't anything like Algol 68 though.  Its parser had to have
been pretty simple.