Why is "while" ticking me off???
Adam Sampson
ats1 at ukc.ac.uk
Mon Oct 9 06:52:03 EDT 2000
Greg Ewing <see at my.signature> writes:
> Huaiyu Zhu wrote:
> >
> > if a = dict1[k1]; a:
> > a.do_something_interesting()
>
> I don't like that as it stands; it's too hard to read.
>
> It could perhaps be improved:
>
> if a where a = dict1[k1]:
> a.do_something_interesting()
>
> except that then the evaluation order is different
> from the reading order.
How about adding a "set to" operator?
if a := dict[k1]:
a.something()
Hmmm.
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Adam Sampson
azz at gnu.org
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