On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:46:34 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24 April 2018 at 23:38, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov...@gmail.com> 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.
If the ambition is to find a piece of syntax that reads as "binds", then we can use a variation on the FLUFL operator: "<->". Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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