On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 3:49 AM, Victor Stinner vstinner@redhat.com wrote:

I propose a poll because I'm unable to track the opinion of each core dev, too many emails have been sent to python-dev, and maybe some people changed their mind during the long discussion (which started in February) :-)

Victor said "Please don't elaborate here" so I've opened yet another* thread for this topic. :) My apologies to all for that. However, I didn't feel like the poll captured my opinion well. In the interest of not adding too much more noise to the discussion on this specific topic, I'll provide a (relatively) brief opinion here and then bow out. (I don't feel like I have anything else to contribute on the subject.) If you feel similarly, feel free to do likewise (e.g. be concise). Please don't engage in discussion here. There are plenty of other threads for that. If no one else registers their opinion here that's fine with me too. :)

As to my actual opinion, ultimately I don't think "binding expressions" are such a big deal either way. I doubt abuse will be as common or frustrating as that of list comprehensions and ternary expressions; but either way code review will mitigate that risk (and I doubt binding expressions will be a major distraction there). Anyway, I'll probably use them occasionally if we get them.

-eric

• Yeah, it's like when someone says "the problem is there are too many file formats" so they write their own to render the rest irrelevant... <wink>