[Python-Dev] PEP 572: Assignment Expressions

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Apr 19 02:42:11 EDT 2018


MRAB wrote:
> Some languages use '=' for assignment, others for equality, but do you 
> know of a language that uses ':=' for equality' or '==' for assignment?

No, but the only sane reason to use "==" for equality testing
seems to be if you're already using "=" for something else.
So maybe we should just implement "from __future__ import pascal"
and be done with. :-)

-- 
Greg


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