On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, 12:22 am Paul Moore, <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 13:53, Antoine Pitrou <antoine@python.org> wrote:

The dictionary destructuring can act as an example. We know Nick's position:

    case {"text": message, "color": c}:

1. There's nothing (other than the fact that it's in a case clause) to
indicate that message and c are assigned to.
2. It "binds to the right without using as", (as far as I can see,
based on the premise that "as" is the only valid way of binding names
where the name is on the right, which was asserted without any
justification).

What other syntax do we have that binds to the right without "as"? Allowing it at all is only as old as with statements, but that's still more precedence than ":" and "=" have for being used that way.