| 1. | MBASIC permitted but did not require the LET keyword for assignment statements.
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| 2. | The assignment statement assigns values to one or more variables.
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| 3. | In Python, assignment statements are not expressions and thus do not have a value.
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| 4. | The assignment statement allows a variable to change its value.
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| 5. | Lines two to four are called assignment statements.
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| 6. | In fact, assignment statements are never referentially transparent.
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| 7. | A swap statement differs from an assignment statement in that it is both fast and avoids aliasing.
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| 8. | Functional languages don't even use assignment statements.
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| 9. | Twenty years later, Crank and Felleisen showed how to scale Plotkin's work to languages with imperative assignment statements.
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| 10. | Consider C assignment statement x = x * 10, this changes the value assigned to the variable x.
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