> $(a=7, $(a=a+1, a*2))

I suspect you ALREADY have bash installed on your computer, you don't need Python to emulate it.

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 6:22 AM, Zero Piraeus <schesis@gmail.com> wrote:

:

On 28 April 2018 at 07:07, Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...] For that matter, I'd be fine too with shortening it to "let". In
> fact, I prefer that! Thanks :-)

If you really wanted to overcome objections that this looks too much
like a function, you could spell it "$". I'm not sure what I think
about

$(a=7, $(a=a+1, a*2))

yet, but it doesn't make me want to run screaming in the way that := does.

I think I finally worked out why I have such a violent reaction to :=
in the end, by the way: it's because it reminds me of Javascript's
"===" (not the meaning, but the fact that it exists).

-[]z.

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