Assignment

Expressions are often used in conjunction with the assignment operator, =, to give values to objects. This operator,

• is defined between all intrinsic numeric types. The two operands of = (the LHS and RHS) do not have to be the same type.
• is defined between two objects of the same user-defined type.
• may be explicitly overloaded so that assignment is meaningful in situations other than those above.

Examples,

    a = b
    c = SIN(.7)*12.7
    name = initials//surname
    bool = (a.EQ.b.OR.c.NE.d)

The LHS is an object and the RHS is an expression.

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