if <assignment>:

[Erik Max Francis]

Bengt Richter wrote:

> BTW, is there anything written on what the BDFL may have in mind for
> ':=' and '?' and '@' etc for? I'm sure he wouldn't want to squander
> them
> on something trivial, but I wonder if there's some indication.

I would hope at least some of these punctuation symbols remain
indefinitely unused, so that they can be used as out-of-band indicators
in, for instance, templating system.  (EmPy uses @ by default, for
instance.)

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