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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri Apr 20 14:22:21 EDT 2018

On 04/20/2018 11:15 AM, Christoph Groth wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

I also think that if "=" and ":=" both target the same kind of scope, there isn't enough new expressiveness introduced by the latter to justify the syntactic complexity of adding it. OK, but then how about introducing assignment expressions with the "=" operator but requiring extra parens (similar to how modern C compilers warn about assignment expressions without parens), e.g.

Using a single "=" for assignment expressions isn't going to happen. Period.

-- Ethan

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