on 15.09.2008 06:12 Guido van Rossum said the following:
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Leif Walsh <leif.walsh@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Eric Smith <eric@trueblade.com> wrote:
assert B as S
Personally, I like 'else' better than 'as', because 'as' seems to contain the notion of assignment.
That's my gut feeling too, but I don't like 'else' all that much either (if would also make things like"assert x if t else b, msg" less readable I think). Maybe "assert B with S"???
FWIW I don't like turning it into a function either, and I *really* don't like keeping the keyword but changing the syntax to be function-like.
FWIW, Java's assert syntax is:: assert Expression1 : Expression2 ; which I regularly tried to write in Python when I started with it... (minus the semicolon of course)