[Python-ideas] "given" vs ":=" in list comprehensions

[Ed Kellett]

On 2018-05-14 05:02, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> The same grammar adjustment that I believe will allow "given" to be used as
> both a postfix keyword and as a regular name would also work for "where".
> However, "where" still has the problem of semantically conflicting with
> SQL's use of it to introduce a filter clause, whereas Hypothesis uses
> "given" to bind names to values (just a little more indirectly than would
> be the case for assignment expressions)

I suspect that SQL is not high on the list of languages people might
confuse with Python. FWIW, as I'm sure will have been mentioned, Haskell
uses "where", and people seem to manage fine with it.

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