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Re:Why Does “=” Mean Assignment? by noonespecial on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @10:26PM (#16807560)
I never liked the 'gets':

"x gets 7" is fine but

"x becomes the same as y" seems better than "x gets y"

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Re:Why Does “=” Mean Assignment? by gowld on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @12:51AM (#16808132)
that's wrong, though. x becomes a copy of y, which is only transiently the same.
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Re:Why Does “=” Mean Assignment? by dmichulke on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @05:37AM (#16809440)
What is "transiently the same"?

Genuinely asking - my first thoughts are:

"transiently the same" is not the same as "the same", hence it is not "the same", and therefore "not the same".

No jokes on the meta-level please :o)

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Re:Why Does “=” Mean Assignment? by Y_Y on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @06:29AM (#16809676)
Depends on the language, and the types of x and y. See e.g. python.
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