[Python-Dev] anonymous blocks

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Perhaps it could be even simpler: 
> 
>     [assignment_target '=']* expr ':' suite

I don't like that so much. It looks like you're
assigning the result of expr to assignment_target,
and then doing something else.

> This would just be an extension of the regular assignment statement.

Syntactically, yes, but semantically it's more
complicated than just a "simple extension", to
my mind.

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