two ideoms at one blow: line-reading and regexp-matching

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	Russell Nelson [SMTP:nelson at crynwr.com]
>  > Assignments and expressions are different things in Python...
> 
> Indeed, and that's a good thing.  But I'm proposing an alternate
> syntax for the if statement, specifically:
> 	"if" <variable> "=" <expression":.
 
So the assignment (the <variable> "=" <assignment> bit) looks to see if it's
in an 'if' or 'while', and becomes an becomes an expression if it is. Sorry,
but that's ugly. *And* it would allow the exact error which the
assignment/expression thing was introduced to prevent.

Thanks, but no thanks.

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk





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