Re: undefined compound chaining behavior

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 16:42:25 +0330, Hossein Sajjadi wrote:
> By introduction of compound assignment in Octave it is intended to be
> an improvement regards to Matlab but this introduce other issuses such
> as violation of referential transparency.

Well, an assignment or any other expression that has side effects is
not referentially transparent, that's the way it is. Octave is not a
functional language.

> I think the rules, if there are any rules, should be updated.

There are rules, as I think it's been made clear here. It also seems
clear from the responses you have gotten that many others find the
current behavior more correct, so I think you are in the minority.

Thanks for the discussion,

-- 
mike