On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 8:07 PM Yanghao Hua <yanghao...@gmail.com> wrote: > I understand that after the assignment expression (:=) PEP572 people > are already not happy with anything that could be slightly related to > assignment overloading, I actually don't understand why people object > PEP572 so hard, its practical use is clear and it makes code shorter > and easier to read. Sometimes it seems the obsession of people in one > idea makes them to even deny the existence of problems ... problems > that having been solved well in other programming languages, and is > well understood by majority of the programmers.
Assignment overloading and PEP 572 are completely orthogonal. The := operator makes assignment available in an expression context, rather than only as a statement, but this is nothing to do with allowing the target operator to redefine assignment. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
