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

[Rob Cliffe]

Yeah, well, I'm totally lost.  Even after trying out this code, and 
refactoring it once if not twice, I didn't understand it.  I don't know 
what point you're trying to prove, but you seem to have comprehensively 
proved it.


On 11/05/2018 15:04, Jacco van Dorp wrote:
> A while ago, we had this gem:
>
> 2018-04-06 8:19 GMT+02:00 Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>:
>> Using currently supported syntax:
>>
>>      smooth_signal = [average for average in [0] for x in signal for average in [(1-decay)*average + decay*x]]
> Go ahead and understand that line in 1 go. It's currently legal syntax
> for a running average for a smoothing signal, which remembers
> something about it. (Subject: Proposal: A Reduce-Map Comprehension and
> a "last" builtin)
>
> You're not allowed to work it out bit by bit, just understand the
> entire line or nothing. Any failure of yours proves my point.
>
>> [João]
>> How do you read something like " while (cmd := get_command()).token != CMD_QUIT:" in plain english?
> while open-paren cee em dee colon is call get-underscore-command
> close-paren dot token doesn't equal all-caps cee em dee underscore
> quit colon.
>
> Might be some dutch in there.
>
> But far more importantly, I can hold the concept into my head, or just
> the parts of it that I need. How we call it in english is actually not
> a good argument - whether we can easily mentally parse it is, since I
> tend not to code by voice command, but with a keyboard. Your mileage
> may vary, but I think we should optimize for keyboard coding over
> voice chat coding. And when I need to refer to it, I say "this bit
> here" or I copy paste it.
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