July 18, 2009
7:07 a.m.
Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
In a sense, the where-block is in part an attempt to extend the assignment statement so that the "right hand side" can span more than one statement.
That pretty much spells its doom, then. The BDFL is quite firm (as demonstrated in, e.g., the pronouncement against multi-line lambda <URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3099/>) that multi-statement expressions are verboten. -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “I think so, | `\ Brain, but why does a forklift have to be so big if all it does | _o__) is lift forks?” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney