Analyzer complains about assert statement.

[johnniwinther]

The analyzer complains about this assert statement in language/type_error_test.dart:

assert(assertionsEnabled = true);

If = is changed to == the test is accepted (but has the wrong semantics!).

[bwilkerson]

Correct. According to the specification:

assertStatement:
   assert '(' conditionalExpression ')' ';'
      ;

and an assignment is not a conditional expression.

Gilad, do we want to allow an arbitrary expression in asserts?

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[gbracha]

We might look into this in the future, but not any time soon.

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[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by @chalin

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Related: https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=17682

[munificent]

Duplicate of #17682.