I've no idea, I've never done any Pascal.
Correct, Pascal didn't allow assignments in expressions as an assignment was a statement and not an expression.
In C an assignment is an expression and thus it is allowed to be included into other expressions.
In Pascal though you never had trouble with this:
if (x = "command") { std::cout << x << std::end; }
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I've no idea, I've never done any Pascal.
Correct, Pascal didn't allow assignments in expressions as an assignment was a statement and not an expression.
In C an assignment is an expression and thus it is allowed to be included into other expressions.
In Pascal though you never had trouble with this: