12 Jun
2012
12 Jun
'12
2:51 p.m.
On 06/11/2012 09:21 PM, Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
If it's going to be assigned, I want to reuse a's resources
And that's the problem. Reusing those resources is destructive, so if your function fails before it returns the new value, the old value is lost. It is not natural for something written as foo = bar(); to change foo if bar fails.