> Unless you have a concrete solution (short of allowing '=' in
> expressions :-) there's no solution and you're wasting everybody's
> time for explaining how useful it would be.
If we had symbols, we could write something like
if assign('x, some_expression):
print x
Presumably a reference to a Python symbol would be not just the symbol
name string, but also an indicator of the namespace of the symbol.
But frankly, I don't think symbols would bring much else to Python,
and I'm -1 on adding them. It seems to me that something very like
the above can already be done with partial function application. It
could even be regularized/automated with a bit of metaclass hacking.
Bill
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