[Python-Dev] PEP 572: Assignment Expressions

[Ethan Furman]

On 04/20/2018 11:15 AM, Christoph Groth wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
>> I also think that if "=" and ":=" both target the same kind of scope,
>> there isn't enough new expressiveness introduced by the latter to
>> justify the syntactic complexity of adding it.
>
> OK, but then how about introducing assignment expressions with the "="
> operator but *requiring* extra parens (similar to how modern C compilers
> warn about assignment expressions without parens), e.g.

Using a single "=" for assignment expressions isn't going to happen.  Period.

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~Ethan~