Assignment context defined ?

[Dan Smith]

It could be convenient to have a forward-reference to all the places assignment contexts are used.  I'll keep that in mind...

For normative rules, where you should be looking is the specification for the corresponding construct -- i.e., 15.26, 14.17, 10.6, 8.3.2.  Here, the text generally talks about being "assignable", where it should probably be more explicit about defining the context.  I'll make a note to fix that.

—Dan

On Feb 22, 2013, at 3:18 AM, Srikanth S Adayapalam <srikanth_sankaran at in.ibm.com> wrote:

> It came up during local discussion that the term assignment context appears not 
> be defined precisely: The introduction of section 5 has an informal discussion 
> where item 2 bullet 1 starts:
> 
>  "Assignment contexts (including return statements, etc.) are supported" 
> 
> which implies that the term "assignment context" is used loosely, to include
> many more syntactic constructs. 
> 
> Shouldn't there be a clear enumeration ? (Assignment, return statements, 
> local declarations with initialization, field declarations with initializations, 
> array creation expressions with initializations ...) 
> 
> Thanks! 
> Srikanth 
> 
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