Idea for P3K

[bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com]

On 7 mai, 23:20, John Roth <johnro... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 7, 3:03 pm, "bruno.desthuilli... at gmail.com"
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> <bruno.desthuilli... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7 mai, 21:41, Gary Herron <gher... at islandtraining.com> wrote:
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> > > Méta-MCI (MVP) wrote:
> > > > Hi!
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> > > >> I don't often feel like using this word
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> > > > Look at languages like OCAML or F #
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> > > > @-salutations
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> > > Well of course, we're all well aware of other languages that allow
> > > variables to be bound in the middle of an expression.  It's just that
> > > Python was purposely created without that (mis)feature because it's so
> > > unclear, and easy to abuse.
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> > This is the same argument that has been used to justify the lack of MI
> > and operator overloading in Java.
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> > Not that I would support having assignment as expressions in Python
> > (wouldn't fit the whole design IMHO), but this is still a somewhat
> > arbitrary design choice, not necessarily a GoodThing(tm) by itself -
> > well designed expression-based languages have their strength too.
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> Clearly this leaves C and C++ out [grin].

Indeed.  Neither are expression-based languages anyway.