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The purpose of an assignment is to replace the current value of a variable with a new value specified by an expression. The expression must be assignment compatible with the variable. The assignment operator is written as ":=" and stands for becomes.
assignment ::= left_designator := expr left_designator ::= designator |
If an expression e of type Te is assigned to a variable v of type tv, the following happens:
The following are examples of assignments (refer to examples in the section about variable declarations):
i := 0 | |
p := i=j | |
x := i+1 | |
k := log2(i+j) | (* see procedure declaration examples *) |
F := log2 | (* see procedure declaration examples *) |
s := {2,3,5,7,11,13} | |
a[i] := (x+y) * (x-y) | |
t^.key := i | |
w[i+1].name := "John" | |
t := c |
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