<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@unlambda" class="u-url mention">@<span>unlambda</span></a></span> it was, and I wasn&#39;t sure if the answer was that or not (in one non-English language i know, the equivalent word for &quot;value&quot; can be in principle translated as such but doesn&#39;t carry the monetary connotation at all)</p>

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<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> semi-serious submission: because imperative variables have valence.</p><p>thoughts: why is the value of a function potentially a &quot;multiple value&quot;, and what&#39;s the difference between parameters and return values? what about languages that allow multi-valuedness (FramerD FDScript)?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> as opposed to references to values, i guess</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I always thought that this terminology was stolen from math.</p>

<p>like, why is the word &quot;value&quot; applicable to variables?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> because they’re quite useful. Constants only go so far</p>

<p>do we?<br />I wouldn&#39;t say that, I would say they have &quot;a value&quot;<br /><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span></p>

<p>question: why do we say that variables have value?</p>