Re: vote on assignments as expressions

Operators are given the names of
 - prepositions (plus, minus, times)
 - conjunctions (or, and)
 - adverbs (not)
 - adjectives (greater than)
 - verbal adjectives (divided by)

That's why "gets" doesn't cut it as an operator name.

If we need to replace the word operator in

    foo( a operator b )

to express the action of assigning, or the result of being assigned,
the picking is poor, leaving maybe only

    foo( a assigned b )

You know, there is something totally amiss here. An expression evaluates
to the result of the operator:

  a + b    returns the sum

  a > b    returns the comparison

  a = b    returns the success of the assignment (unless one has a C mind)

I surmise that we can't correctly say "assignment as expression",
because it's "a" that gets the contents of "b", not the expression.

What we are after here is rather a way to represent a pipe. Or a sequence.

  1) do the assignment of b to a
  2) then use a


 pipe:  b -> a -> foo

 r-to-l sequence: foo(a(b))

In plain language, we would say: pass the value of b to a, then pass
the value of a to foo.

What construct would convey a(b) in a sense that's similar to foo(a)?

I'm way past my bedtime...

  Laurent Dube