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.