Why does the debugger's breakpoint condition allow an assignment-statement as bool-condition?

Question

This is very dangerous so I wonder why it\'s allowed. Since I often need to switch between VB.NET and C# I sometimes add breakpoint-conditions like following:

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Answer 1

I can disagree about buggy nature of this behavior. Few examples where for debugging purposes in my life if was useful:
1. Other thread modifies something in your code.
2. Other service updated value in db
So I suppose for cases of synchronization it can be useful feature, but I agree that it can cause problems