[Python-Dev] PEP 572: Assignment Expressions

[Ned Deily]

On Apr 23, 2018, at 18:04, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> However, against "as" is that its current use in "with" statements
> does something quite different:
> 
>    with f() as name:
> 
> does not bind the result of `f()` to `name`, but the result of
> `f().__enter__()`.  Whether that "should be" fatal, I don't know, but
> it's at least annoying ;-)

Prior art: COBOL uses "GIVING", as in:

   ADD x, y GIVING z

No need to re-invent the wheel ;)

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