On 24 April 2018 at 23:38, Yury Selivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > I propose to use the following syntax for assignment expressions: > > ( NAME = expr ) > > I know that it was proposed before and this idea was rejected, because > accidentally using '=' in place of '==' is a pain point in > C/C++/JavaScript. > > That said, I believe we can still use this syntax as long as we impose > the following three restrictions on it: > > 1. Only NAME token is allowed as a single target. > > 2. Parenthesis are required. > > 3. Most importantly: it is *not* allowed to mask names in the current > local scope.
While I agree this would be unambiguous to a computer, I think for most humans it would be experienced as a confusing set of arcane and arbitrary rules about what "=" means in Python. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com