Using 'as' was debated extensively on python-ideas. I don't like it for several reasons:
- the semantics are subtly different from all other uses of 'as' in Python; I'd like to reserve 'as' for "not a plain assignment" - a short word is easier to miss when skimming code than punctuation - most other languages (Java*, C*) borrow from assignment (name = expr) On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Ned Deily <n...@python.org> wrote: > On Apr 23, 2018, at 18:04, Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > > However, against "as" is that its current use in "with" statements > > does something quite different: > > > > with f() as name: > > > > does not bind the result of `f()` to `name`, but the result of > > `f().__enter__()`. Whether that "should be" fatal, I don't know, but > > it's at least annoying ;-) > > Prior art: COBOL uses "GIVING", as in: > > ADD x, y GIVING z > > No need to re-invent the wheel ;) > > -- > Ned Deily > n...@python.org -- [] > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ > guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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