[Python-Dev] PEP 572: Assignment Expressions (original) (raw)
Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Apr 18 14:04:01 EDT 2018
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On Apr 18, 2018, at 10:43, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
Some languages use '=' for assignment, others for equality, but do you know of a language that uses ':=' for equality' or '==' for assignment?
Clearly we should take a page from the ternary operator and make the assignment expression operator just ugly enough that people won’t overuse it. Since I can’t have ‘>>’ or ‘<>’ back, I propose ‘=======‘.
go-ahead-count-‘em-every-time-ly y’rs, -Barry
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