Sorry, I tried this too. If you think the response to the current version of the PEP is strong, the negative reaction to that version was way stronger, and I decided not to pursue it.
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 5:00 PM Alexander Belopolsky < alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:47 PM Yury Selivanov <yselivanov...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I think I tried a variation of your proposal here >> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-April/152939.html >> and nobody really liked it. >> >> Right. I now recall your proposal. I think I did not support it at the > time because I was against having expressions with side-effects regardless > of syntax. Now, as I mentioned, in the current form the PEP makes a strong > case for allowing a limited form of variable assignment in expressions. I > also think that the dreadfulness of mistyping = where == is expected is > exaggerated. In all motivating cases, := is used to introduce new bindings > rather than rebinding existing names. Automated code checkers can easily > warn users when they rebind variables in if statements and suggest that > they silence the warnings with redundant (..) if they really want what they > wrote. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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