Re: First language with conditional assignment?

> As for me, I don't like conditional assignments,
> much preferring the traditional form --


> if e > f then a := b else a := c;


It's very sad that programmers are trained to artificially separate the
world into "statements" and "expressions" and hence end up, as above,
preferring the less precise and more redundant form.
To me


    a := if e > f then b else c;


has various advantages, e.g.:
- common subexpression elimination.
- make it blatantly obvious that this whole thing sets `a' without
    having to check what each branch does.




                Stefan

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