Honestly I’d probably have had elixir had two operators, one for assignment and matching with a pin, and another for matching and assigning only to new bindings else use a pin to override. The conflating of matching and the weird rebinding/assigning Elixir does right now is confusing to a lot of people.
So no, it’s not that the pin operator is backwards, it’s great for an ‘assign’ operator, the problem is that there isn’t a dedicated matching operator as well. Could use := for assigning and = for matching, or reverse it, or something else, or whatever. Someone could do it with a library.
