inline conditional assignment possible?

[Ando Sonenblick <ando@...>]

Hi gang,

I'm trying to assign a varible in an if statement and have its resulting value be evaluated for the if.  For example:

Normal way:

s = project:FindSprite("Title")
if s ~= nil then
print("we have a title")
end

New desired way:

if (s = project:FindSprite("Title")) ~= nil then
print("we have a title")
end

But lua always complains and I've tried all sorts of syntactical variations.  Is what I'm trying to do possible?

thx,
ando