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I thought =
was a mathematical operator, not a logical operator; why does Python use
=
instead of ==
, or
<=
instead of <==
, or
!=
instead of !==
?
Thanks in advance for any clarification. I would have posted this in the help forums of FreeCodeCamp, but I wasn’t sure if this question was too…unspecified(?) for that domain.
Cheers!
It doesn’t still have a traditional assignment operator. You can assign values to mutable variables.
Also I would say let-binds are still pretty much assignment; they just support destructuring. Plenty of languages support that to some extent (JavaScript for example) and you wouldn’t say they don’t have assignment.
I don’t think it affects the ability to overload
=
anyway. I think there aren’t any situations in Rust where it would be ambiguous which one you meant. Certainly none of the examples you gave compile with both=
and==
. Maybe there’s some obscure case we haven’t thought of.