A simple solution for [] access that can trivially be added to List and Map.

[Lawrence Kesteloot]

Reinier wrote:
> We're still talking about, as Ruslan showed, a
> vanishingly small number of code-lines where pass-through assignment
> is even an issue.

Ruslan only checked compound assignment (a = b = c). What about my
idiomatic assignment-in-while:

    do {
        x = read();
    } while ((list[i++] = x) != terminatingValue);

or, more concisely:

    while ((list[i++] = read()) != terminatingValue) { ... }

I used to see this all the time in C, but haven't seen it much in Java.

I like your proposal. Compared to Neal's static import, however, it
seems more invasive (void-return change) and less flexible (the
assignment can't decide what to return). The void-return change, in
particular, smells bad.

Lawrence