[Python-Dev] chained assignment weirdity

[Rob Cliffe]

On 06/11/2012 12:01, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> As noted, it's really only counterintuitive if your intuition is 
> primed to expect C style right to left chained assignments.
>
> Python, on the other hand, is able to preserve primarily left to right 
> evaluation in this case with only the far right hand expression 
> needing to be evaluated out of order.
>
>
>
It strikes me that a really intuitive language (at least for Westerners 
who read left-to-right) would write assignments as
     expression --> target
and then the order of assignment in
     expression -> target1 -> target2
could be the natural left-to-right one.
[Sorry, this is more appropriate to Python-ideas, but I couldn't resist 
adding my 2c.]
Rob Cliffe
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