pronunciation of assignment

Question

Hi everybody,

this is a question to the English native-speakers of you.

If you have a line of code like 'String name = "David"; and you want to read this aloud to someone else, say a colleague, how do you pronounce it?

String name is being assigned to David?
String name is getting David?
Or something else?

Thanks in advance

andreas

Answer 1

One trick from my Pascal times was to call the assignment operator (it was ":=") like "takes as value". In Java, I'd pronounce "=" as "takes as value", in order to differentiate it from the comparison operator "==", which I'd read as "is equal to".

Answer 2

String name is equal to David

Answer 3

Thank you, Alvaro. That's exactly the differentiation I use in German.

By the way, Standard Pascal was also my first programming language, and this was only one and a half years ago. It was much more difficult than I had expected it to be ;)