On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > Clearly the PEP should spell out the precedence of :=. I'm sure Chris > intended to give := the lowest possible precedence: the analogy with = (both > in Python and in other languages), and the original design of the PEP, where > the syntax was (<expr> as <var>), with mandatory parentheses. (Probably his > implementation helps to guess his intention too, but I can't be bothered yet > to clone and build it just to answer this question definitively. :-) > > I find the analogy argument compelling, and I think we should just make it a > style rule that parentheses should be used whenever it could be misread by a > human who's not sure about the precedence. > > Too bad for that one example.
Yes, that's the current intention, and (modulo a bug or two) the current reference implementation. This may change tonight. (If anyone's curious, and/or wants to join the discussion in real-time, I'll be streaming live on https://twitch.tv/rosuav as I tinker with the precedence.) 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/
