[Python-ideas] Inline assignments using "given" clauses

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 9:44 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> I'm sorry, but unless there's a sudden landslide of support for 'given' in
> favor of ':=', I'm really not going to consider it.

How much support was there for ":="?  Are you serious about bringing
back Pascal and Algol from their comfortable resting places?