[Python-Dev] PEP 572: Assignment Expressions

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:04 AM Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Apr 18, 2018, at 10:43, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>
> > Some languages use '=' for assignment, others for equality, but do you
> know of a language that uses ':=' for equality' or '==' for assignment?
>
> Clearly we should take a page from the ternary operator and make the
> assignment expression operator just ugly enough that people won’t overuse
> it.  Since I can’t have ‘>>’ or ‘<>’ back, I propose ‘=======‘.
>
go-ahead-count-‘em-every-time-ly y’rs,
>

8 of course.  to "match" what merge conflict markers look like. ;)

php already uses === for something, we should just use =========== so we
can say "it goes to eleven", ending the operator war once and for all. :P

-gps
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