On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:00:01AM -0700, Mike Miller wrote: > It is true that := handles more (perhaps less-common) use cases, but > subjectively it is not as "Pythonic." Also doesn't appear to be the > direction the surveyed languages are going.
Your conclusion does not follow even from the limited sample of languages you looked at. Out of the five languages you surveyed, three include some form of assignment expressions. It completely collapses if we look at a more extensive sample of languages dating back to 2009. If we limit ourselves to the three clear "winners" since 2009 (languages which have significant, if still niche, popularity/relevance according to TIOBE), we find all three: Coffeescript, Go, Swift have some form of assignment expressions. Go's is very limited: only in "if" statements. Coffeescript and Swift allow assignment expressions anywhere. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
