On Sun, Nov 3, 2019, at 11:01, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote:
> > counter-argument: foo = raise NIY
>
> What is that a counter-argument to? The fact that it would nearly
> always be completely useless to assign a raise?
>
> I don’t know what NIY means here, but why couldn’t you write thi
Random832 wrote:
I have, occasionally, wanted to be able to resume a function
after handling an exception ... In a hypothetical
implementation that would allow such a thing, having the raise return a value
in such a scenario might not be unreasonable.
For that to be of any use, the code that ra
On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, at 16:22, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Random832 wrote:
> > I have, occasionally, wanted to be able to resume a function
> > after handling an exception ... In a hypothetical
> > implementation that would allow such a thing, having the raise return a
> > value
> > in such a scenario mi
On Nov 5, 2019, at 21:48, Random832 wrote:
>
> As a side note, I have, occasionally, wanted to be able to resume a function
> after handling an exception (the use case was to turn a synchronous outer
> function calling an asynchronous callback into an asynchronous function),
> which - needless
During a recent HN discussion about the walrus operator I came to realize yet
another advantage of notation. I used APL professionally for about ten years,
which made it an obvious source of inspiration for an example that, in my
opinion, demonstrates why the Python team missed a very valuable o
On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 3:28 PM martin_05--- via Python-ideas
wrote:
> Back to Python.
>
> This entire mess could have been avoided by making one simple change that
> would have possibly nudged the language towards a very interesting era, one
> where a specialized programming notation could be ev
martin_05--- via Python-ideas wrote:
The transition to only allowing "←" (and
perhaps other symbols) could be planned for Python 4.
Requiring non-ascii characters in the core language would be a
very big change, especially for something as ubiquitous as
assignment. Much more justification than
The arrow ...which I will not copy and paste to really hammer home the point
that its not on my fairly standard US keyboard... doesn't look like assignment,
it looks like a comparison operator.
> -Original Message-
> From: martin_05--- via Python-ideas
> Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019
On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 5:32 AM martin_05--- via Python-ideas <
python-ideas@python.org> wrote:
> In other words, these two things would have been equivalent in Python:
>
> a ← 23
>
> a = 23
>
I do not consider these two things conceptually equivalent. In Python the
identifier ('a' in this
