On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, 12:54 am Nick Coghlan, <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, 12:22 am Paul Moore, <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 13:53, Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote:
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>> The dictionary destructuring can act as an example. We know Nick's
>> position:
>>
>> case {"text": message, "color": c}:
>>
>> 1. There's nothing (other than the fact that it's in a case clause) to
>> indicate that message and c are assigned to.
>> 2. It "binds to the right without using as", (as far as I can see,
>> based on the premise that "as" is the only valid way of binding names
>> where the name is on the right, which was asserted without any
>> justification).
>>
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> What other syntax do we have that binds to the right without "as"?
> Allowing it at all is only as old as with statements, but that's still more
> precedence than ":" and "=" have for being used that way.
>
Correcting myself: the import statement usage has been around much longer
than that.
With statements were just the case that took 'as name' from being an import
specific syntax to being a bit more general than that.
Cheers,
Nick.
>>
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