Mark Russell wrote: > On 21 Feb 2006, at 19:25, Jeremy Hylton wrote: > >>If I recall the discussion correctly, Guido said he was open to a >>version of nested scopes that allowed rebinding. > > > PEP 227 mentions using := as a rebinding operator, but rejects the > idea as it would encourage the use of closures. But to me it seems > more elegant than some special keyword, especially is it could also > replace the "global" keyword. It doesn't handle things like "x += y" > but I think you could deal with that by just writing "x := x + y".
By rebinding operator, does that mean it is actually an operator? I.e.: # Required assignment to declare?: chunk = None while chunk := f.read(1000): ... -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com