Nah?? -- Carl Smith carl.input@gmail.com On 24 May 2018 at 19:24, Carl Smith <carl.input@gmail.com> wrote:

This is another suggestion for new syntax for assigning a name to the value of the predicate in an if, elif or while statement. It still uses `as` for its keyword, but with (more flexible) params instead of a direct assignment.

It mashes up the if/while, def/class and for-in grammars, so it still looks like Python, and boils down to this:

if|elif|while <predicate> as (<params>): <suite>

If the params contain one simple name (the required minimum), the value of the predicate is assigned to that name. In any other case, the value must be a sequence, which gets unpacked:

while input('$ ').split() as (command, *args):

if run(command, parse(args)) as (result): render(result) else: sys.exit()

-- Carl Smith carl.input@gmail.com

Nah?? -- Carl Smith carl.input@gmail.com On 24 May 2018 at 19:24, Carl Smith <carl.input@gmail.com> wrote:

This is another suggestion for new syntax for assigning a name to the value of the predicate in an if, elif or while statement. It still uses `as` for its keyword, but with (more flexible) params instead of a direct assignment.

It mashes up the if/while, def/class and for-in grammars, so it still looks like Python, and boils down to this:

if|elif|while <predicate> as (<params>): <suite>

If the params contain one simple name (the required minimum), the value of the predicate is assigned to that name. In any other case, the value must be a sequence, which gets unpacked:

while input('$ ').split() as (command, *args):

if run(command, parse(args)) as (result): render(result) else: sys.exit()

-- Carl Smith carl.input@gmail.com