Assignment Operator
This lesson explains the use of the assignment operator with object variables.
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What is an assignment operator?
Assingment is giving a new value to an existing object:
returnTripDuration = tripDuration; // assignment
The assignment is more complicated than the other special operations because it is actually a combination of two operations:
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Destroying the left-hand side object
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Copying the right-hand side object to the left-hand side object
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