Oct. 26, 2003
3:29 a.m.
How about adding a "rebinding" operator, for example spelled ":=":
a := 2
I expect Guido would object to that on the grounds that it's conferring arbitrary semantics on a symbol.
Hardly arbitary (I have fond memories of several languages that used :=). But what is one to make of a function that uses both a := 2 and a = 2 ??? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)