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Comment by JoeAltmaier

Another way to express this is, I'd like a language keyword for "left hand side of assignment". Then for x=x+1 I could say

     x = <LHS> + 1;

It could then get arbitrarily complex. E.g.

     x =  (<LHS> + 1) / atan(<LHS>) - <LHS>;

and no matter how complex 'x' was in practice, the compiler (and the code reader) could keep track of what was happening.

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