On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 1:18 AM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) If this feature existed in Python 3.11 exactly as described, would > you use it? > No. ... except in the sense that as I trainer I have to teach the warts in Python, and would need to warn students they might see that. > 2) Independently: Is the syntactic distinction between "=" and "=>" a > cognitive burden? > YES! A few weeks later than the prior long discussion that I read in full, it took a triple take not to read it as >= (which would mean something syntactical in many cases, just not what is intended). > 3) If "yes" to question 1, would you use it for any/all of (a) mutable > defaults, (b) referencing things that might have changed, (c) > referencing other arguments, (d) something else? > I would always recommend against its use if I had any influence on code review. > 4) If "no" to question 1, is there some other spelling or other small > change that WOULD mean you would use it? (Some examples in the PEP.) > Yes, the delay/later/defer keyword approach is not confusing, and does not preempt a later feature that would actually be worth having. 5) Do you know how to compile CPython from source, and would you be > willing to try this out? Please? :) > I do know how, but it is unlikely I'll have time. -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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