Re: vote on assignments as expressions

Laurent Dube wrote:

> 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.

I think you have successfully demonstrated that operator names can be any
part of the english language :-)

> 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 )

Past tense verb?  That's better?  Quit while you are behind. :-)

Actually I'll vote for some other symbol combination since you pointed out
the problem with "<-".