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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: "definition" rather than assignment (lazy evaluation)
Message-ID: <12402@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 90 20:47:28 GMT
References: <35045@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <35045@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, by othar@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Othar Hansson):
> 
> Is there any literature on taking assignment/initialization of
> variables as "definition", i.e., that
> 
> mytype M = A*B;
> 
> is taken to mean that M is defined as the product of A and B, and that
> changes to A will cause M to change? 



int M()
{
  return A*B;
}


Sheesh.