April 25, 2018
10:08 p.m.
On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:55:43 -0500 Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> wrote:
To my eyes, this is genuinely harder to follow, despite its relative brevity:
while total != (total := total + term):
Does it even work? Perhaps if the goal is to stop when total is NaN, but otherwise?
For that reason, the messages that sway me are those showing real code, or at least plausibly realistic code. In the majority of those so far, binding expressions would be a small-to-major win.
I'm sure it's possible to find thousands of line of code where binding expressions wouldn't be a win, but I'm not sure that would be a constructive use of mailing-list bandwidth. Regards Antoine.