Eric Snow wrote:
Unless I've missed something, there's no prohibition against deprecating things (and then later removing them) or other breaks in backward compatibility.
I suppose that's true, but even so, changing "=" is going to feel like a really big change in the style of the language, bigger even than making "print" no longer a statement. It seems like there should be more justification for it than "well, it became redundant with :=". How would you complete the following sentence? "The ':=' symbol is a much better symbol for assignment than '=', because..." -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
