Re: Strange behavior of "=" as assignment operator

Chris Travers-5 wrote

> However = as assignment is particularly odd to me for two reasons.  First
> it is not ambiguous but it leads to difficult to read constructs, like
> this:
>

>    out_var = in_left = in_right;

Agreed but the genie is already out of the bottle and I am OK with something
at the "lint/check_function" level trying to enforce good coding habits as
opposed to changing the language to prohibit what has now been allowed for
many years.