Mark Russell wrote: > PEP 227 mentions using := as a rebinding operator, but rejects the > idea as it would encourage the use of closures.
Well, anything that facilitates rebinding in outer scopes is going to encourage the use of closures, so I can't see that as being a reason to reject a particular means of rebinding. You either think such rebinding is a good idea or not -- and that seems to be a matter of highly individual taste. On this particular idea, I tend to think it's too obscure as well. Python generally avoids attaching randomly-chosen semantics to punctuation, and I'd like to see it stay that way. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
