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by kazinator 131 days ago
> let a, b, c = 0, 1, 0

That's atrocious; = should never have a lower precedence than comma.
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Joker_vD 131 days ago
Please forward your complaints to Martin Richards @ https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/ for making this decision.

Also, why?

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kazinator 130 days ago
Sorry, where did Martin Richards supposedly make this decision?
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Joker_vD 130 days ago
That's how variables are declared in BCPL, the language he designed and implemented in 1967. Keyword "LET", comma-separated list of names, "=", comma-separated list of expressions (that will be used to initialize the variables). For rare cases when one deliberately wants to leave a variable uninitialized, constant-valued expression "?" exists.

Anyway, why is this syntax atrocious?

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