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Subject: Re: [Off-Topic] Python gets :=
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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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