PEP-0315--Enhanced While Loop: An idea for an alternative syntax

[Josiah Carlson]

> Huh?  It's an expression, the value is explicit.

Perhaps no one has noticed that C's allowing of assignments in while/for 
/if statements has caused more than one bug.  Hell, there was a 
much-publicised hole in the Linux kernel that was caused by this not 6 
months ago.

Sure, there is a difference between '==' becoming '=', and '==' becoming 
':=', but the difference is 1 inch and a shift key on my keyboard.  I've 
made larger errors when typing than just an inch and a shift-key.  I 
believe it would cause more bugs, reduce readability, and attempts to 
fix a problem that doesn't really exist.

  - Josiah