why cannot assign to function call

[Mark Wooding]

Steven D'Aprano <steven at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:

> By all means, if Derek doesn't like the assignment model used by Python 
> (and Java, Ruby, C#, Perl, RealBasic, VisualBasic, Lua, and many other 
> languages going back to at least CLU in the mid 1970s) 

It goes back to Lisp in the late 1950s.

[snip stuff I agree with.]

-- [mdw]