On 2018-04-11 05:23, Clint Hepner wrote:
I find the assignments make it difficult to pick out what the final expression
looks like.
I strongly agree with this, and for me I think this is enough to push
me to -1 on the whole proposal. For me the classic example case is
still the quadratic formula type of thing:
x1, x2 = (-b + sqrt(b**2 - 4*a*c))/2, (-b - sqrt(b**2 - 4*a*c))/2
It just doesn't seem worth it to me to create an expression-level
assignment unless it can make things like this not just less verbose but
at the same time more readable. I don't consider this more readable:
x1, x2 = (-b + sqrt(D := b**2 - 4*a*c)))/2, (-b - sqrt(D))/2
. . . because having to put the assignment inline creates a visual
asymmetry, when for me the entire goal of an expression-level statement
is to make the symmetry between such things MORE obvious. I want to be
able to write:
x1, x2 = (-b + sqrt(D)))/2, (-b - sqrt(D))/2 ...
. . . where "..." stands for "the part of the expression where I define
the variables I'm re-using in multiple places in the expression".
The new proposal does at least have the advantage that it would help
with things like this:
while x := some_function_call():
# do stuff
So maybe I'm -0.5 rather than -1. But it's not just that this proposal
"could be used to create ugly code". It's that using it for
expression-internal assignments WILL create ugly code, and there's no
way to avoid it. I just don't see how this proposal provides any way to
make things like the quadratic formula example above MORE readable.
--
Brendan Barnwell
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no
path, and leave a trail."
--author unknown
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