On 7 April 2018 at 09:50, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 08:06:45AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> Please join the PEP 572 discussion. The strongest contender currently is `a >> := f()` and for good reasons. > > Where has that discussion moved to? The threads on python-ideas seem to > have gone quiet, and the last I heard you said that you, Chris and Nick > were discussing some issues privately.
Yeah, there were some intersecting questions between "What's technically feasible in CPython?" and "What stands even a remote chance of being accepted as a language change?" that Guido wanted to feed into the next iteration on the PEP, but were getting lost in the "Class scopes do what now?" subthreads on here. The next PEP update will have a lot more details on the related rationale, but the gist of what's going to change at the semantic level is: * the notion of hidden sublocal scopes is going away, so folks will need to use "del" or nested scopes to avoid unwanted name bindings at class and module scope (similar to iteration variables in for loops), but the proposed feature should be much easier to explain conceptually * comprehensions and generator expressions will switch to eagerly capturing referenced names from the scope where they're defined in order to eliminate most of their current class body scoping quirks (this does introduce some new name resolution quirks related to comprehensions-inside-regular-loops, but they'll at least be consistent across different scope types) * as a result of the name capturing change, the evaluation of the outermost expression in comprehensions and generator expressions can be moved inside the nested scope (so any name bindings there won't leak either) (At a syntactic level, the proposed spelling will also be switching to "name := expr") There will still be plenty of open design questions to discuss from that point, but it's a big enough shift from the previous draft that it makes sense to wait until Chris has a sufficiently complete reference implementation for the revised semantics to be confident that we can make things work the way the revised PEP proposes. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
