On 26/03/18 02:24, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I gotta say I'm warming up to := in preference over 'as',*if* we're going to do this at all (not a foregone conclusion at all).
I have the usual objection to glyphs (hard to look up or get help on), but ":=" raises two issues all of its own. * On the plus side, it looks like some kind of assignment. People reading through the code will not be overly surprised to find it results in a name binding. * On the minus side, it doesn't quite look like an assignment statement. While my crystal ball is cloudy, I can well imagine beginners becoming very confused over which symbol to use in which circumstance, and a lot of swearing when: x := f() if (y = g(x)) is not None: h(y) results in syntax errors. I'm inclined to think you want assignment expressions to look unlike assignment statements to avoid this sort of confusion. -- Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd