Re: vote on assignments as expressions

"Laurent Dube" <[email protected]> wrote

> Well, fake it then. Make  ".assign!("  an operator in disguise. Only the
> interpreter will know. This may open an interesting door.

The period means to look up an existing attribute and the exclamation mark
means to modify an object in-place and the assignment operation doesn't do
either one of those, even though it fooled both you and me long enough to
post messages.

If you wanted, we could make a keyword operate as "a assign(b)".  This would
be totally honest, but a tad bit weird.  The already suggested "a gets b"
would make more sense and be easier to type.

I personally vote for "a <- b".  It says it all.  It looks ugly in my
outlook express font but looks great in my text editor.