Re: assignment in conditional expression?

[lhf@... (Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo)]

>From: David Jeske <jeske@home.chat.net>
>
>Is there any way to do assignment inside an expression? I often want
>to do this in if or while blocks and whenever I try something like:
>
>if ((a = fn()) == 2) then
>
>or:
>
>while (a = fn()) do
>
>it (of course) dosn't work.. Is there some way to do assignment inside
>an expression like this, and if not, why not?

assignments are statements, not expressions as in C.
but, if 'a' is a global variable, you can d:

  while (setglobal("a",f())==2) do ... end

mind you, setglobal("a",f()) is probably *not* noticably slower than a=f()!
--lhf