On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 7:47 AM, Peter O'Connor <peter.ed.ocon...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all, thank you for the feedback. I laughed, I cried, and I learned.
>
You'll be a language designer yet. :-)
> However, it looks like I'd be fighting a raging current if I were to try
> and push this proposal. It's also encouraging that most of the work would
> be done anyway if ("Statement Local Name Bindings") thread passes. So some
> more humble proposals would be:
>
> 1) An initializer to itertools.accumulate
> functools.reduce already has an initializer, I can't see any controversy
> to adding an initializer to itertools.accumulate
>
See if that's accepted in the bug tracker.
> 2) Assignment returns a value (basically what's already in the "Statement
> local name bindings" discussion)
> `a=f()` returns a value of a
> This would allow updating variables in a generator (I don't see the need
> for ":=" or "f() as a") but that's another discussion
>
Please join the PEP 572 discussion. The strongest contender currently is `a
:= f()` and for good reasons.
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