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Using 'as' was debated extensively on python-ideas. I don't like it for several reasons:

- the semantics are subtly different from all other uses of 'as' in Python; I'd like to reserve 'as' for "not a plain assignment"

- a short word is easier to miss when skimming code than punctuation

- most other languages (Java\*, C\*) borrow from assignment (name = expr)

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Ned Deily <nad@python.org> wrote:

On Apr 23, 2018, at 18:04, Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> wrote:
\> However, against "as" is that its current use in "with" statements
\> does something quite different:
\>
\> with f() as name:
\>
\> does not bind the result of \`f()\` to \`name\`, but the result of
\> \`f().\_\_enter\_\_()\`. Whether that "should be" fatal, I don't know, but
\> it's at least annoying ;-)

Prior art: COBOL uses "GIVING", as in:

ADD x, y GIVING z

No need to re-invent the wheel ;)

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Ned Deily
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