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Resolves #3266 (see discussion there)

This change tries to document the current behavior, reducing some confusion regarding which CodeQL class covers which assignment type.

I assume this requires no change note since these are only documentation changes, is that correct?

However, personally I think maybe Assignment should actually cover UnaryAssignExpr (at least the name UnaryAssignExpr suggests this). For example if you currently want to check for any assignments to array elements you still have to write custom code for this because as mentioned Assignment does not cover UnaryAssignExpr, and all the Var... classes don't work either because the assignment is not directly on a variable, but instead on an ArrayAccess.

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LGTM, thank you for the contribution.

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However, personally I think maybe Assignment should actually cover UnaryAssignExpr (at least the name UnaryAssignExpr suggests this)

That's certainly a fair point, but I'm not sure the effort involved in terms of judging the need for and handling deprecation, or assessing the impact of a potentially breaking change is worth the gain.

@aschackmull aschackmull merged commit fb2d36d into github:main Feb 14, 2024
@Marcono1234 Marcono1234 deleted the marcono1234/java-assignment-doc branch February 14, 2024 21:17
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Java: VariableAssign (LocalVariableDeclExpr) is not an Assignment

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