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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:23:30 -0400
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 10:35:16 +0100
Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

> On 05/09/2024 22:37, James Kuyper wrote:
> > On 9/5/24 12:54, Kaz Kylheku wrote:  
....
> >> Both sides of an assignment can be complex expressions that
> >> designate an object (though the right side need not).  
> > 
> > So you've correctly identified the very fundamental asymmetry.
> >   
> 
> Sure, if you want to completely disregard all the cases where the 
> symmetry does exist.

Anything can be considered symmetric, if you ignore all the aspects of
it that are asymmetric. As a result, calling something symmetric for
that reason isn't worth commenting on.

A more useful way of describing what you're commenting on is not to
falsely claim that assignment in general is symmetric, but rather that
the particular assignment you're interest in is symmetric. And it's only
symmetric syntactically; the associated semantics are profoundly asymmetric.