No "side effect" assignment!

[Martin Maney]

Asun Friere <afriere at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> In terms of pandering to newbies, I think the requirement that loop
> conditions be expressions is much more squarely aimed at experienced
> programmers, who would otherwise be tempted to write unintelligible
> code by placing too much of the programs logic withing the loop
> condition.

Uhm, no.  *Experienced* programmers know better than to take usch
things to excess, unless the code is being written for a obfuscated
code contest.  As is so often the case, it's those difficult
in-betweeners, no longer innocent by virtue of ignorance, not yet
grown wise enough to eschew the merely clever, who bollix it all up for
the rest of us.

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