[Haskell-cafe] An interesting curiosity

[Steve Schafer]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:59:51 +0100, you wrote:

>Of course, C++ is that crazy language where *assignment* is actually an 
>*operator*. Sick, sick people...

That's really not all that strange. An (infix) operator is just a
function with funny syntax, and assignment is a function (the identity
function, in fact) that also has a side effect.

Steve Schafer
Fenestra Technologies Corp.
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