Re: [Off-Topic] Python gets :=

[Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>]

"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:
> Was not a variable assignment something already known in those dark
> ages back in 1989 when Python was designed?

Python has had assignment statements like "a = 5" from the beginning.

The thing they just added was assignments inside expressions, like in C:

   if (m := re.match('foo(.*)bar', thing)):
      blecch(m)

i.e. if the regexp matches, save the match data in the variable m and
pass it to blecch on the next line.

I don't think Ada has that feature.  It's not something to fight wars
about, but I do find it useful sometimes in both C and Python.