On 29 April 2018 at 01:34, Jeff Allen <ja...@farowl.co.uk> wrote: > On 27/04/2018 08:38, Greg Ewing wrote:
> I speculate this all goes back to some pre-iteration version of FORmula > TRANslation, where to its inventors '=' was definition and these really were > "statements" in the normal sense of stating a truth. https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/equals-as-assignment/ -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ 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