Why '==' ??

[Andres Rosado-Sepulveda]

Fuzzyman wrote:
[snip]

> Actually I think python is fine - just pointing out a couple of
> features of syntax that seemed unnecessary.
> 
> In actual fact I accept the explanation for '==' it was a 'feature' of
> language that I didn't realise existed.
> 
> (Like 
> a = value or default
> which I discovered recently... very useful in certain circumstances).
> 
> Having said that I *Still* think that :
> 
> if a = 3:
> is unambiguous - so there's no real reason that the interpreter should
> wag it's finger and say ... "you forgot to put in one of the '=' and I
> refuse to continue until you do" :-)

The main factor, IIRC, was not that the interpreter couldn't get the 
meaning by context, as you propose, but of readability.

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