On Friday, July 13, 2018 at 11:16:44 AM UTC-4, Bart wrote: > On 13/07/2018 13:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:37:41 +0100, Bart wrote: > > > >> (** Something so radical I've been using them elsewhere since forever.) > > > > And you just can't resist making it about you and your language. > > And you can't resist having a personal dig. > > You and others have given me some flak for bringing up certain simple > features which I believe to be missing from Python, and there are > endless discussions about why Python doesn't need them, with the fact > that Python is so successful being the ultimate proof. > > And now lo and behold one of those basic features is green-lighted to be > added to the language (although apparently with stiff opposition). > > BTW many language features I use including that one where inspired by > Algol-68, while the use of ":=" for all assignments was pioneered even > earlier; hardly my inventions. > > And actually, even C has assignment-expressions so anyone who's coded in > C for decades could have said the same thing. > > > "Hey Bart, did you hear? Nuclear war just broke out between Russia and > > Britain. Dozens of cities are aflame, tens of millions are dead across > > Europe, and a cloud of radioactive smoke is heading our way!" > > Sorry, I thought this was a technical language newsgroup not about > current affairs.
You've made it a current affair issue... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list