On Tue, 16 Jun 2026 at 05:41, Rob Cliffe via Python-list <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, you say the restriction is not arbitrary. Well, it seems so to > me. Why not > a.b := c # as Jon mentioned L[2:4] := M[3:5] L[3] := x (a,b) := (c,d) Of > course these would be part of an expression, not complete lines of code. > This very much reminds me of the rather stringent syntax restrictions > that were initially put on decorators. Eventually these restrictions > were removed.
Please define "arbitrary'. The restriction is extremely simple and prevents syntactic ambiguities. Of course, if you want to change this, you're most welcome to try to convince the SC that they made a mistake. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-list.python.org
