Re: ? assignments are not expressions ?

["Stephen Adam" <saadam@...>]

> > Juxtaposing = and == is always a syntax error in C.
>
> But there are many places -- conditional tests, for example -- where both
> are syntactically valid even though they are semantically very, very, very
> different.

    Hmmm.. That's true, but in my experience it is almost never a problem.


> Right now Lua is (mostly) semantically very clean.  (Upvalues and the like
> are a bit muddled, IMO.)  I'd like to see it not get infected by Cisms.

    I agree.  If we want C language features then we can program in C.