6 Apr
2018
6 Apr
'18
2:58 p.m.
Ah, ok, I suppose that could easily lead to typo-bugs. Ok, then I agree
that "a:=f()" returning a is better
On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Eric Fahlgren
On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 7:47 AM, Peter O'Connor
wrote:
3) The idea that an assignment operation "a = f()" returns a value (a) is already consistent with the "chained assignment" syntax of "b=a=f()" (which can be thought of as "b=(a=f())"). I don't know why we feel the need for new constructs like "(a:=f())" or "(f() as a)" when we could just think of assignments as returning values (unless that breaks something that I'm not aware of)
Consider
if x = 1: print("What did I just do?")