From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T13:45:52+09:00
Subject: Re: parts of speech in Ruby

On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:38 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> In Pascal, "a := b" is normally read as "a becomes b". So in Ruby,  
> I would translate "a = b" as "a becomes a reference to b".

It's more "a becomes a reference to the object b is referencing", or  
better yet "a is now bound to the same object as b [is bound to]". My  
suggestion identifying "=" with the English copula is very tentative.  
It's probably futile to try to force English syntactic terminology  
onto Ruby.

Regards, Morton