5.13 Assigning Values

Special support is available for assigning particular values to vectors of variables. Assignment interleaves the assignment of a value proper to a variable and synchronization until stability after each assignment.

The selection of variables and the selection of values is as with distribution Section 5.12.

assign

{FD.assign +ValA +Xv}

The vector Xv is assigned according to the specification ValA. ValA may be either the atom min, mid, or max. That is, the smallest, medium, or largest element is assigned to each variable.

Is equivalent to (for a list of variables Xs):

proc {FD.assign ValA Xs}
   for X in Xs do  
      {Space.waitStable}
      X = {FD.reflect.ValA X}
   end 
end