On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:04 AM Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2018, at 10:43, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > > > Some languages use '=' for assignment, others for equality, but do you > know of a language that uses ':=' for equality' or '==' for assignment? > > Clearly we should take a page from the ternary operator and make the > assignment expression operator just ugly enough that people won’t overuse > it. Since I can’t have ‘>>’ or ‘<>’ back, I propose ‘=======‘. > go-ahead-count-‘em-every-time-ly y’rs, > 8 of course. to "match" what merge conflict markers look like. ;) php already uses === for something, we should just use =========== so we can say "it goes to eleven", ending the operator war once and for all. :P -gps
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