I don't know what to do with this thread. I enjoyed reading Mike's survey of what other languages do. I also enjoyed Chris's survey of what some other languages do. Then the thread veered off into several unproductive directions at once: a mini-tutorial for Rebol (or Red?), and endless bickering about which list of languages to allow in the survey.
But that's not how this stuff gets decided. It's not the case that if we find that 90% of languages surveyed don't have inline assignment that means Python should not have it either. So changing the criteria for inclusion in the survey is entirely unproductive (except in that it may create a strong bonding experience between participants in the discussion -- though in this case perhaps the forces involved may be better described as repulsion than attraction :-). *Perhaps* it would help if we could ask those languages' designers for their rationale (most of them are still alive :-). But nobody proposed that. And it probably wouldn't help either, because the answers of actual language designers for such questions are typically a mixture of strongly held opinion on issues that aren't decidable based on hard facts alone, and hard but incredibly subtle facts related to the rest of the language's design and implementation (including the state of tooling and the structure of the compiler used as a reference implementation). So let's just end this thread. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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