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Text["x=" x] reverses order of terms producing the string: 1.2 x=

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• Subject: [mg125936] Text["x=" x] reverses order of terms producing the string: 1.2 x=
• From: Daniel <daniel.bentsur at gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 04:14:58 -0400 (EDT)
• Delivered-to: l-mathgroup@mail-archive0.wolfram.com

I don't yet understand the subtleties of evaluation order, but this seems unintuitive.

I've managed to get the representation I want with Text[StringJoin["x= ", ToString[x]]],
but would prefer both to understand what's happening and reduce verbosity.

thanks.