On Sat, Feb 5, 2022, 12:19 PM Mirmojtaba Gharibi
wrote:
>
> With my proposal, using := to init (similar to how in math parlance, the
> := is used for defining something for the first time)
>
> Dic = {} # format fruit:count
> For fruit in fruits:
>Dic[fruit]:= 0
>Dic[fruit]+=1
>
To my
Hi Mirmojtaba, thanks for your suggestion.
I doubt this idea will fly with this syntax because it could easily be
confused with the walrus operator.
x := 0
is *almost* legal syntax currently. In fact
(x := 0)
is legal, and it is quite possible that at some time in the future
This is `collections.Counter`.
On Sat, Feb 5, 2022, 3:19 PM Mirmojtaba Gharibi
wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I have an idea for initializing a variable the first time it’s created; it
> can especially be helpful with containers, and dicts specifically. Let me
> demonstrate with some examples:
>
>
