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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Apr 19 02:42:11 EDT 2018


MRAB wrote:

Some languages use '=' for assignment, others for equality, but do you know of a language that uses ':=' for equality' or '==' for assignment?

No, but the only sane reason to use "==" for equality testing seems to be if you're already using "=" for something else. So maybe we should just implement "from future import pascal" and be done with. :-)

-- Greg



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