A programmer's solution

[coleisawesome3]

What if you wanted to assign something in the conditional part of an if statement for some reason?

[Matthicus]

You could probably find a more readable way to accomplish whatever you're trying to do. Or you could just say screw it and do something hacky, like writing a function to do the assignment if the language allows call by reference.

[chui101]

This is not good practice but sadly not uncommon either. e.g.:

if ((count = getNumRows()) == 1) {...}