On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's one that baffled an office full of MIT grads for half a day > before I noticed the real problem: > > assert(n=2); > > You can fill in the rest of the story yourself - but you'll miss the > full extent of the agony it caused ;-)
I have to confess that my eye jumped down to the code before reading all of the text above it, and as a result, I thought you were pointing out that "n=2" for assignment would conflict with named argument usage. Which it does, but that wasn't your point :) Is there any way that ":=" can legally occur in Python source (ignoring string literals) currently? A colon is always followed by a 'suite' or a 'test', neither of which can start with '=', and annotated assignment has to have something between the ':' and '='. If it's 100% unambiguous, it could be the solution to the current wonkiness with 'as' having multiple meanings; in fact, there would then be a new form of consistency: 'as' binds the special result of a statement, but ':=' binds arbitrary expressions. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
