[Python-ideas] A "local" pseudo-function

[David Mertz]

>    $(a=7, $(a=a+1, a*2))

I suspect you ALREADY have bash installed on your computer, you don't need
Python to emulate it.

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 6:22 AM, Zero Piraeus <schesis at gmail.com> wrote:

> :
>
> On 28 April 2018 at 07:07, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [...] For that matter, I'd be fine too with shortening it to "let".  In
> > fact, I prefer that!  Thanks :-)
>
> If you really wanted to overcome objections that this looks too much
> like a function, you could spell it "$". I'm not sure what I think
> about
>
>     $(a=7, $(a=a+1, a*2))
>
> yet, but it doesn't make me want to run screaming in the way that := does.
>
> I think I finally worked out why I have such a violent reaction to :=
> in the end, by the way: it's because it reminds me of Javascript's
> "===" (not the meaning, but the fact that it exists).
>
>  -[]z.
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