On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 5:12 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Chris Jerdonek wrote: > >>>> if (diff := x - x_base) and (g := gcd(diff, n)) > 1: > > >> "if diff, which we let equal x - x_base, and g, which ..." or >> "if diff, which we set equal to x - x_base, and g, which ...." or >> "if diff, which we define to be x - x_base, and g, which ...." or >> "if diff, which we define as x - x_base, and g, which ....." etc. > > > How about "being" as a keyword: > > if (diff being x - x_base) and (g being gcd(diff, n)) > 1: > return g > > An advantage is that you're not likely to be tempted to write > > diff being x - x_base > > on its own as a statement.
Considering that we have ':=', 'as', and 'from', I very much doubt that *any* proposal requiring a new keyword is going to fly. The bar for creating new keywords is a lot higher than that. We hashed out a lot of this on python-ideas; it's almost certainly a waste of time to go through it all again now. I have no intention of editing the PEP to recommend a brand new keyword. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
