Never say never again (was Re: PEP 285: Adding a bool type)

[Aahz]

In article <a8sn8u$sj7$0 at 216.39.172.122>, Bengt Richter <bokr at oz.net> wrote:
>
>Well, I guess that depends on how you define "assignment" in Python.
>ISTM there really is no such thing, in the sense of updating a named
>storage place with new content, so what goes by the name "assignment"
>needs some explanation. If the statement a=b is an assignment,
>then binding the name 'a' to object b is the meaning of Python
>assignment as I see it. 

I define "assignment" in Python as being precisely equal to "=".
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