In Kotlin, assignments are not expressions. But ar...

# getting-started

[Florian]

In Kotlin, assignments are not expressions. But aren't increment and decrement operators also assignments technically?

[karelpeeters]

What's the point of that question? Feel free to call them assignments, or just call them increment and decrement.

[Florian]

I am preparing a tutorial so I need to get rid of any uncertainty

[Toddobryan]

In other languages, they are expressions with an assignment side effect, but that might not be how Kotlin handles them.

[Florian]

Yea I guess it makes sense this way

[karelpeeters]

The Kotlin grammer doesn't call it an assignment, https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/grammar.html#assignment

[Florian]

oh I see