Assignment statements in C/C++

Assignment statement in C/C++:
- The assignment statement is used to assign a value (computed from an expression) to a variable
- Syntax:
- Notice
  - The expression (value) has a type , and
  - The variable has a type , and
  - The variable can have a different type than the value assigned !!!
- If the types of the expression and the variable are different, then:
  - the compiler will (secretly, without telling you) convert the value (on the right hand side of =) to the type of the variable before storing the value into the variable
    (This makes sense, because the variable can only hold value of that particular type)
- And you already know that this conversion can result in an error when you convert a wider type to a more narrow type :
Multiple assignment statements:
- C/C++ is one the few languages when you can assign the same value (from some expression) to multiple variables in one statement:
  The result of the Expression is assigned to all variables