Curious assignment behaviour

[James_Althoff at i2.com]

Tim Peters wrote:
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Oops!  The assert turned out to be the perversely self-fulfilling:

    assert(i = 1);

and multiple senior programmers with many decades of industrial C
experience had stared at that multiple times without realizing the mistake.
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I could certainly look at that a bunch of times and think "equality"
instead of "assignment".  This is one of the reasons why Smalltalk (among
other languages) insisted on *not* using "=" to spell assignment.  In my
experience, when assignment is *not* spelled with "=" such mistakes don't
come up in practice.  And then it *is* acceptable (and very convenient) to
make assignment an expression.

Jim