[Python-Dev] (name := expression) doesn't fit the narrative of PEP 20 (original) (raw)
Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Apr 26 15:05:23 EDT 2018
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On 4/26/2018 6:34 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:
Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Well, how do languages where assignment is an expression returning the assigned value make their REPLs work? I'm sure they don't inflict that on their users, so it's certainly a solvable problem. I can't think of any such language that has a REPL offhand, but here's a possible solution:
x := expr # doesn't print anything
Ugh! The only reason I would bother typing the : in a top level assignment would be to get the print without having to retype the name, as in
x = expr x
I consider echoing top-level interactive assignments to be a feature of the proposal.
-- Terry Jan Reedy
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