In message <mailman.2787.1246986627.8015.python-l...@python.org>, MRAB wrote:
> I wonder whether the problem with assignment in conditionals in C is due > to the assignment operator being "=". If it was ":=", would the error > still occur? One of the original C designers, Kernighan or Ritchie, admitted that he made the assignment operator "=" instead of ":=" just to save typing one character, because he thought assignments were more common than tests for equality. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
