The assignment operators assign a new value to a variable, a property, or an indexer element.
The left operand of an assignment must be an expression classified as a variable, a property access, or an indexer access.
The =
operator is called the simple assignment operator. It assigns the value of the right operand to the variable, property, or indexer element given by the left operand. The simple assignment operator is described in §7.13.1.
The operators formed by prefixing a binary operator with an =
character are called the compound assignment operators. These operators perform the indicated operation on the two operands, and then assign the resulting value to the variable, property, or indexer element given by the left operand. The compound assignment operators are described in §7.13.2.
The assignment operators are right-associative, meaning that operations are grouped from right to left. For example, an expression of the form a
=
b
=
c
is evaluated as a
=
(b
=
c)
.