IMO it would make more sense to just treat assignments as expressions, as is done in C-like languages. Maybe I'm just more accustomed to C-like languages, thoug

IMO it would make more sense to just treat assignments as expressions, as is done in C-like languages. Maybe I'm just more accustomed to C-like languages, though. I think that one thing that makes the statement confusing is that the first equals sign serves a purpose completely different from the second equals sign, but both of them are represented by the same character.