17 Apr
2018
17 Apr
'18
3:12 p.m.
On 04/17/2018 06:26 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
I should also point out that I remain -0 on this proposal (I'd already said this on python-ideas, but I should probably repeat it here). For me, the use cases are mostly marginal, and the major disadvantage is in having two forms of assignment. Explaining to a beginner why we use a := b in an expression, but a = b in a statement is going to be a challenge.
I don't see the challenge: They are different because '=' came first, but using '=' in an expression is a common source of bugs, so there we use ':=' instead. -- ~Ethan~