Which languages have a primitive operation for swapping variables?
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29-05-2021 - |
Question
In most languages, if you want to swap two variables, it's something like:
var c = b
b = a
a = c
Yes, you can do fancy hacks with XOR if you like but it's generally 3 lines of code for a single operation. Are there any languages that have swapping variables as a primitive in the language?
La solution
Lua, Python, Ruby and more support this notation:
a, b = b, a
And javascript sure needs no temporary variable either ;)
a = -(b = (a += b) - b) + a;
For more examples on how to swap variables (in 86 languages), see: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Generic_swap
Autres conseils
In most dynamic languages you can do something like this to swap:
a, b = b, a
Now a have the value of b, and b has the value of a. I am not sure if this is what you meant or not.
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