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. (A procedure can be written with two arguments of the desired type which will define what assignment means between two object of these types, see Section .)

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.