On 28 February 2018 at 20:16, Alex Walters <tritium-list@sdamon.com> wrote:
For what its worth, I'm +1 on it.
I actually like that it would allow:
while (something() as var): something_else(var)
...without being a bug magnet. The bug magnet isn't the assignment of a name in the condition of a while loop, it's the fact that assignment is a simple typo away from comparison. This is not a simple typo away from comparison (the operands are a different order, too).
For me, the problem isn't so much with the expected use cases (with the ironic exception that I dislike it for the original motivating example of list comprehensions), it's that any "unusual" use of the construct seems to raise more questions about the semantics than it answers. I remain -1, I'm afraid. Paul