[Python-Dev] (name := expression) doesn't fit the narrative of PEP 20 (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Apr 26 06:39:31 EDT 2018


Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Depends if you mean a graph between names or values?

If between names, you can even have cycles AFAICT:

((a: = a + b), (b: = a))

I was thinking more of the dataflow graph. That's not a cycle between values, since the new values being bound are calculated from the previous values of the names.

-- Greg



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