From Ben Dean about C++

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Wed Jan 2 04:16:45 EST 2019


On 02/01/2019 04:29, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    A slide from Ben Deane's talk about C++:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------.
> |                                                       |
> |       ODD THING #1: ASSIGNMENTS ARE EXPRESSIONS       |
> |                                                       |
> |  Assignment as an expression is a historical choice.  |
> |          It's doing us no favours today.              |
> |         Assignment should be a statement.             |
> |                                                       |
> '-------------------------------------------------------'
>
>    "Easy To Use, Hard to Misuse: Declarative Style In C++" (talk),
>    Ben Deane (2018-05)
>
>    (Yes, he wrote "favours" in this way.)
>
>
Probably because he speaks English and not American.




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