On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:

On 29 April 2018 at 01:34, Jeff Allen <ja.py@farowl.co.uk> wrote:
> On 27/04/2018 08:38, Greg Ewing wrote:

> I speculate this all goes back to some pre-iteration version of FORmula
> TRANslation, where to its inventors '=' was definition and these really were
> "statements" in the normal sense of stating a truth.

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/equals-as-assignment/

That blog post was brought up before in this discussion (probably on python-ideas). I have my doubts about whether it accurately represents the historic truth though.

--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)