Bug 9040

Summary:	DOM/AST: why is the left hand side of an assignment an expression
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Dirk Baeumer <dirk_baeumer>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Olivier Thomann <Olivier_Thomann>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	2.0 M3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
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Description Dirk Baeumer

2002-02-04 11:34:02 EST

Why is the left hand side of an assignment of type expression and not of type 
Name. I can't come up with a case where the left hand side can be anything else 
than an Name. This would make treating assignment easier.

Comment 1 Olivier Thomann

2002-02-04 11:42:02 EST

I'll see with Jim why he chooses Expression instead of Name. Keep you inform.

Comment 2 Jim des Rivieres

2002-02-04 13:30:11 EST

JLS2 15.26 - The left hand side is a name, field access, or array access.

Name cannot cover array access, although it can the other 2. That's why its 
Expression.

Comment 3 Dirk Baeumer

2002-02-05 11:12:24 EST

OK for me to close

Comment 4 Olivier Thomann

2002-02-05 11:24:24 EST

Close.