> $(a=7, $(a=a+1, a*2)) I suspect you ALREADY have bash installed on your computer, you don't need Python to emulate it.
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 6:22 AM, Zero Piraeus <sche...@gmail.com> wrote: > : > > On 28 April 2018 at 07:07, Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [...] For that matter, I'd be fine too with shortening it to "let". In > > fact, I prefer that! Thanks :-) > > If you really wanted to overcome objections that this looks too much > like a function, you could spell it "$". I'm not sure what I think > about > > $(a=7, $(a=a+1, a*2)) > > yet, but it doesn't make me want to run screaming in the way that := does. > > I think I finally worked out why I have such a violent reaction to := > in the end, by the way: it's because it reminds me of Javascript's > "===" (not the meaning, but the fact that it exists). > > -[]z. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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