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Re: The Assignment Principle

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On Sunday, January 26, 2014 2:27:13 PM UTC-8, markspace wrote:
> On 1/26/2014 12:17 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
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> >    Also, it is
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> >    about values and not expressions, so that
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> > v = java.lang.Math.random();
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> Well, most often it is about expressions:
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>    a = 2;
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>    b = 1;
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>    v = a * a + b;
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>    System.out.println( v == 5 );
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> Had darn well better print 'true';
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I don't think this fits the definition. "5" is not the assigned value.
The test should be
   v == (a * a + b)

Consider
 double a = 2.3;
 double b = 1.1;
 double c = a + b;

Then the test
  c == 3.4
may or may not be true.
However, the test
  c == (a+b)
should be true.

-- 
Fred K



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Re: The Assignment Principle markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2014-01-26 14:27 -0800
  Re: The Assignment Principle Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2014-01-27 18:50 +0100
    Re: The Assignment Principle markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2014-01-27 13:33 -0800
      Re: The Assignment Principle Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2014-01-29 06:10 -0800
        Re: The Assignment Principle Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2014-01-29 16:24 +0200
  Re: The Assignment Principle FredK <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2014-01-27 12:04 -0800

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