On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> 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/ > That blog post was brought up before in this discussion (probably on python-ideas). I have my doubts about whether it accurately represents the historic truth though. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
_______________________________________________ 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
