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Assignment

An expression of the form

  Z = Z + 2.0
fetches the value of Z from memory, adds 2.0, and stores the result at the same memory location Z. In short, . Note that the assignment = has a totally different meaning than mathematical equality (here, the mathematical relation is an equation without solution).



Adrian Sandu 2001-08-26