Why no "=" in if? (was Re: Quick fix to add "+=")

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Aahz Maruch
| 
| x = foo()
| if x:
|     ...
| 
| instead of 
| 
| if x = foo():
|     ...
| 
| Why doesn't Guido get off his duff and fix this?????????!

What's so wrong about it? Personally I seriously dislike assignments
that return values (at least in conventional languages).

--Lars M.