On 02/28/2018 02:43 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Robert Vanden Eynde wrote:
3) "C problem that an equals sign in an expression can now create a name binding, rather than performing a comparison." The "=" does variable assignement already, and there is no grammar problem of "=" vs "==" because the "with" keyword is used in the expression, therefore "with a == ..." is a SyntaxError whereas "where a = ..." is alright (See grammar in thektulu implemention of "where").
Yes, but in Python, "=" does variable assignment *as a statement*. In C, you can do this:
while (ch = getch()) do_something_with(ch)
That's an assignment in an arbitrary condition, and that's a bug magnet. You cannot do that in Python. You cannot simply miss out one equals sign and have legal code that does what you don't want. With my proposed syntax, you'll be able to do this:
while (getch() as ch): ...
There's no way that you could accidentally write this when you really wanted to compare against the character.
Given the current (posted) proposal, wouldn't 'ch' evaporate before the ':' and be unavailable in the 'while' body? -- ~Ethan~