That's exactly right. Looking at the Assignment Operator Wiki page, it's also clear where these notations come from. I think an easy way to look at it, for som

That's exactly right. Looking at the Assignment Operator Wiki page, it's also clear where these notations come from. I think an easy way to look at it, for someone coming from a math background, is to think of programming lines as instructions, instead of statements. x=x+1 can be then read as "let x be x+1", and that's it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_(computer_science) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_(computer_science)