Assignment V equality

[Gordon JC Pearce]

Fred Cisin wrote:

> students.  Students who are SO beginning, that N = N + 1 is NOT obvious.
> Many of them are actually otherwise intelligent, but they have not learned
> how to think procedurally, and have been trained to think that '=' means
> that two expressions are interchangable with each other.

Hang on a minute, does anyone *really* find the use of "=" as 
assignation, and "=" as equivalence, in *any way* confusing?

I had managed to get my head round that when I was eight years old!  You 
can't seriously sit there and tell me that university students have 
trouble grasping that...

Gordon.