New assignmens ...
Jon Ribbens
jon+usenet at unequivocal.eu
Fri Oct 22 15:15:01 EDT 2021
On 2021-10-22, Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Paulo da Silva <p_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns at nonetnoaddress.pt> writes:
>>Why doesn't this work
>> if (self.ctr:=self.ctr-1)<=0:
>>while this works
>> if (ctr:=ctr-1)<=0:
>
> assignment_expression ::= [identifier ":="] expression,
> but the attribute references "self.ctr" is no identifier!
This seems a surprising omission. You'd expect at least 'attributeref'
and 'subscription' to be allowed, if not the whole of 'target'.
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