[Python-Dev] PEP 572: Assignment Expressions (original) (raw)

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Wed Apr 18 17:26:17 EDT 2018

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:04 AM Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

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,

8 of course. to "match" what merge conflict markers look like. ;)

php already uses === for something, we should just use =========== so we can say "it goes to eleven", ending the operator war once and for all. :P

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