Timeline for how do pronounce assignment = in math or programming?
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| Feb 19 at 20:54 | history | edited | Milad Rahimi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 14 at 12:20 | comment | added | ColleenV |
@JamesK I think if we limited the question to math, it's OK as a "how do I read this aloud" question, but I agree that how to read code aloud is out of scope (especially since x = 5 could mean different things in different programming languages).
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| Feb 14 at 11:47 | comment | added | James K | I’m voting to close this question because this is not a question of "English" but strictly field specific. The point of code is to avoid the ambiguity of natural language. So asking how to render computer code in natural language is quixotic | |
| Feb 14 at 11:09 | history | edited | Milad Rahimi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 21, 2016 at 10:47 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/800651916246130688 | ||
| Nov 20, 2016 at 21:56 | history | edited | Jasper |
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| Aug 8, 2015 at 10:09 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | The first question (which nobody asked) should be: What programming language is this, that uses double "=" signs? Because yours is not a question about English; it is about that programming language. In BASIC , assigment is "LET A=B" (let A equal B) In C, you can say things such as "B++" (increment B). How you say it has nothing to do with English rules; it depends on the programming language's syntax. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 8:28 | comment | added | Lucian Sava | I would say for X equal to 5 | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 8:24 | vote | accept | Milad Rahimi | ||
| Aug 7, 2015 at 8:22 | answer | added | SolarLunix | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 8:18 | comment | added | Random | I would say "5 is assigned to x", or "x is filled with 5"... but I'm not native english. In my native language (french), there is no way to say it "nicely". We would better talk of "x is initialized to 5". | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 8:16 | history | edited | M.A.R. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2015 at 8:12 | answer | added | Beta Decay | timeline score: 6 | |
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| Aug 7, 2015 at 8:09 | history | asked | Milad Rahimi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |