[Python-Dev] PEP 572: Write vs Read, Understand and Control Flow (original) (raw)

Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer arj.python at gmail.com
Wed Jul 4 07:50:06 EDT 2018


agree for =>

but how many people use pascal eiffel etc? (go has a chance)

that's a reminder of an old, fading epoch, bland IDEs, hard-to-crunch fonts

BDL Guido once remarked in a pycon talk that today agencies would've charged you a high price to tell you what the word python might tickle in the subconscious of the common user, we should maybe write on what ":=" tickles in the mind of most programmers

Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Mauritius

The fact that := will be familiar to many people (especially if they

know Go, Pascal or Eiffel etc) is a point in its favour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment%28computerscience%29#Notation The => arrow puts the arguments around the "wrong" way compared to regular assignment: name = expression expression => name Although personally I like that order, many people did not and I think Guido ruled it out very early in the discussion. Also it may be too easily confused with <= or >= or the -> syntax from annotations. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20180704/148e7da0/attachment-0001.html>



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