On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:27:31 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Congratulations, you just reinvented one of the most infamous source of > bugs in C, C++, Java, PHP, javascript and quite a few other languages. > Believe it or not, but not allowing this in Python was a very deliberate > design choice.
Oh, but those hundreds of thousands of man-hours lost to bugs caused by assignment-as-an-expression is nothing compared to the dozens of man- minutes saved by having one fewer line of code! *wink* -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
