On 01/12/2021 15:39, David Mertz, Ph.D. wrote:
However, even if I assume the mythical future PEP never happens, in terms of readability, a WORD is vastly less confusing than a combination of punctuation that has no obvious or natural interpretation like '=>'. Or rather, I think that spelling is kinda-sorta obvious for the lambda meaning, and the use you want is kinda-sorta similar to a lambda. So I *do* understand how you get there... but it still seems like much too much line noise for a very minimal need.
Hm. A word is "vastly less confusing". OK. Should Python have been designed with x assigned y+1 rather than x = y +1 (note that '=' here does not have its "obvious or natural interpretation", viz. "is equal to"). Should we have (x becomes y+1) rather than (x := y+1) Conciseness *is* a virtue, even if it is often trumped by other considerations. Best wishes Rob Cliffe