On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 12:46 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> Everyone, > > If you've commented and you're worried you haven't been heard, please add > your issue *concisely* to this new thread. Note that the following issues > are already open and will be responded to separately; please don't bother > commenting on these until we've done so: > > - Alternative spellings for '|' > - Whether to add an 'else' clause (and how to indent it) > - A different token for wildcards instead of '_' > - What to do about the footgun of 'case foo' vs. 'case .foo' > > (Note that the last two could be combined, e.g. '?foo' or 'foo?' to mark a > variable binding and '?' for a wildcard.) > I don't think combining assignment and wildcard will help. '_' is fine for that. I could get used to '?' as an assignment or a wildcard, but it would always be a double-take if it was both. I've seen languages that use '>foo' to indicate assignment, but I can't for the life of me remember which now, aside from shell redirection. '=foo' might be more obvious. In the end I think it's only important that there's some assignment operator, and we'll all get used to whatever you choose.
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