On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 5:54 PM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote:
> On 06May2018 02:00, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 5 May 2018 at 13:36, Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> If only one trailing "given" clause can be given per `if` test
> >> expression, presumably I couldn't do that without trickery.
> >
> >I was actually thinking that if we did want to allow multiple assignments,
> >and we limited targets to single names, we could just use a comma as a
> >separator:
> >
> > if diff and g > 1 given diff = x - x_base, g = gcd(diff, n):
> > return g
> >
> >Similar to import statements, optional parentheses could be included in
> the
> >grammar, allowing the name bindings to be split across multiple lines:
> >
> > if diff and g > 1 given (
> > diff = x - x_base,
> > g = gcd(diff, n),
> > ):
> > return g
>
> I'm well behind, but... this! This turns "given" into a +0.8 for me.
>
> That's really nice. It reads clearly too.
>
> I was hitherto in the "expression as name" camp, which I gather is already
> rejected.
>
I love given, but that's the one thing I don't like. I prefer this:
if (diff and g > 1
given diff = x - x_base
given g = gcd(diff, n)):
return g
—just like for and if subexpressions. Doing this can also open up
weirdness if someone tries to roll something like:
a = f(), # Make a tuple of length 1
into a given statement. Now, where do you up the parentheses?
given (
a = (f(),),
b = whatever?
)
Seems weird.
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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