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

[Guido van Rossum]

Maybe you could propose some kind of syntax using "whereas"? (It can be
used as a preamble.)

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 3:05 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>> I'd need well-reasoned explanations
>>
>
> My reasoning is essentially the same as what I've already
> said about "where". To summarise, "given" sounds like
> something an English-speaking mathematician would write,
> whereas ":=" doesn't even have an obvious pronunciation.
> Some variation on "given" just seems greatly more pythonic
> to me.
>
> --
> Greg
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