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I think I'm going to steal this for my Python classes. I usually say "is" or "is now", but "gets" I think is a more adroit phrasing. Cheers.
by nosignal 15y ago
I think I'm going to steal this for my Python classes. I usually say "is" or "is now", but "gets" I think is a more adroit phrasing. Cheers.
- radq 15y agoPersonally I prefer "becomes". "David Gries recalled a time when he was lecturing with Dijkstra in the audience when he read "x=a" as "x equals a". This is of course a short hand for "assign a to x" and not a statement that x really is logically equal to a. From the back of the room Dijkstra shouted "becomes" and the room fell silent. Gries thought about it for a moment and said, "Thank you Edsger, for correcting me. If I make the same mistake again, stop me." Everything went fine until twenty minutes later he made the same mistake when the shout from the back of the room came again - "becomes". Gries once again thanked Dijkstra and claims to never have made the mistake again."
- teach 15y agoI also say "becomes".
- regularfry 15y agogets is, unfortunately, a common function name for string input, so I avoid it. The first language I was taught was Object Pascal, and the assignment operator ":=" was pronounced "becomes equal to".