Hmm... An idea: if a,b==c,d:

[Erik Max Francis]

Richard Dillingham wrote:

> So again, for if-statements, this looks like it could be done, unless
> the
> CVS version makes it recognize ,s in if statements as being for
> tuples.

No one's disputing that it _could_ be done.  But it's highly unlikely
that it will be done, particularly since both a, b == c, d and (a, b) ==
(c, d) have meaning now and mean something else.  Making an exception
here hardly seems worth the added complexity to the language.

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