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Assignment Expression

Has the conventional meaning -- evalues the right hand side to a value and sets to current value of the variable on the left to be that value. The value of the assignment statement as a whole is the same as the value of the right hand side. The Noun may not be defined as ":final", or the program will be statically rejected. 

BNF:
 
Noun ":=" eExpr
 
XML DTD:
 
<!ELEMENT assignExpr (Noun, %eExpr;)>
 
Java:
 
lvalue-for-noun = jExpr

Where the lvalue has the same appearance in Java as the rvalue, as determined by the Noun translation.

 
Example:
 
c := a + b
 
in Kernel-E:
 
c := a.add(b)
 
in XML:
 
<assignExpr>
    <Noun>c</Noun>
    <callExpr>
        <Noun>a</Noun>
        <Verb>add</Verb>
        <Noun>b</Noun>
    </callExpr>
</assignExpr>
 
in Java:

If c is a simple noun (see Noun): 

    c = a + b

If it's boxed: 

    c_Box[0] = a + b

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