On 2/22/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
At the time PEP 227 was written, nested scopes were contentious. (I recall one developer who said he'd be embarassed to tell his co-workers he worked on Python if it had this feature :-). Rebinding was more contentious, so the feature was left out. I don't think any particular syntax or spelling for rebinding was favored more or less. > 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. I agree. Jeremy _______________________________________________ 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