I value clarity and explicity a lot. And I’m someone who generally lines to think about proper naming of a variable twice to make it easier for future readers o

I value clarity and explicity a lot. And I’m someone who generally lines to think about proper naming of a variable twice to make it easier for future readers of code. At the same time when reading > How can a = a + 1? That’s like saying 1 = 2. I think: Well, depends how you interpret it. If the translation is „we state, that from now on, a is the previous value of a plus 1“ it’s totally ok. Not a big difference from saying a = b + c So i‘m not sure if the usefulness if changing all languages to using := is that high that it’s worth to think about changing it in current languages - and even when inventing a new language I’m not sure if it’s helpful. I also wonder if reassignment, beside counters that need to be changed with iteration/ appearance of the event to be counted, is a thing that should generally be avoided if possible. Ok maybe in general everything where data is transformed in iterations...