From: Chris M Moore <zmower@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: [Off-Topic] Python gets :=
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 11:31:22 +0100
Date: 2018-07-21T11:31:22+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <_XD4D.1448880$Xa4.1339160@fx29.am4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <piuhd9$1sc1$1@gioia.aioe.org>
On 21/07/2018 06:47, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 07/20/2018 04:56 PM, Alejandro R. Mosteo wrote:
>> PEP 572 has been accepted:
>> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/
>>
>
> I find it amazing that assignment has just been added
> to a language created almost 30 years ago.
>
> Was not a variable assignment something already
> known in those dark ages back in 1989 when Python was
> designed?
It's assignment expression. See
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/759558/1a4832a1ea96539f/
Interesting from an Ada perspective only in that they chose :=
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2018-07-20 21:56 [Off-Topic] Python gets := Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-07-21 5:47 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2018-07-21 7:50 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-21 8:37 ` G.B.
2018-07-21 10:31 ` Chris M Moore [this message]
2018-07-21 15:03 ` Rene
2018-07-21 16:34 ` Paul Rubin
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