[Python-Dev] PEP 572: Assignment Expressions

[Greg Ewing]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Neologisms are usually written in the
> other order: "dead on arrival (DOA, for short)." ;-)

Maybe we can make use of that?

    if (x - x_base) (diff) and gcd(diff, n) (g) > 1:

That doesn't work, because the (...) look like function
calls. But what if we used a different set of bracketing
characters:

    if (x - x_base) {diff} and gcd(diff, n) {g} > 1:

I think that's unambiguous, because you can't currently
put {...} straight after an expression.

To make it look even more like a neologism definition,
we could require the bound names to be all-uppercase. :-)

    if (x - x_base) {DIFF} and gcd(DIFF, n) {G} > 1:
       return G

-- 
Greg