ambiguous ?

[Jim Giles]

>From article <5863 at merlin.usc.edu>, by jeenglis at nunki.usc.edu (Joe English):
> [...]                      The utility of
> constructs like increment operators, treating
> assignment like any other expression, and so on,
> are well established.  [...]

Really?  The only ergonomical experiments I've seen on this issue
indicate that such side-effects within expressions are _detrimental_
to programmer productivity.  such experiments were done of languages
as different as APL and TOPPS.  Productivity always was _better_
for variants of the language with expression side-effects removed.