[icen]

All APL versions have had variable assignments, denoted by ←, e.g. `var ← 1 2 3`.

There is a concept of tacit, or point-free, programming, which avoids the variable names as parameters, for example the calculation of the mean `avg ← +⌿÷≢`. However this does become unwieldy pretty quickly, and it's easy to juggle too much. It is very useful for short snippets, where you avoid all of the ceremony and can just express the core thing you want to talk about (for the avg example, it's not improved by including a parameter: `{(+⌿ ⍵)÷≢⍵}` - the ⍵ parameter isn't informative at all, and nor would anything else, like `samples`). I think it is best to keep the tacit snippets short, and to assign good names to them.

[youssefabdelm]

Oh! Thanks so much for the correction. I was sure my memory would fail me here. That's a great point too with naming. In cases like this it makes a lot of sense. There are many cases I'm thinking of where people sometimes have long function names that do lots of stuff so you're not quite sure what the implementation is like.