Python slang

[Michael Torrie]

On 08/10/2016 05:57 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 08/10/2016 10:19 AM, Random832 wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016, at 07:59, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>> 	The use of = also has a long history... FORTRAN (where the comparison
>>> was .EQ.), BASIC (granted, K&K required assignment to start with the
>>> keyword LET, so the use of = was mainly a delimiter between target and
>>> expression being assigned).
>>
>> Visual Basic actually uses = for both assignment and comparison
>> *without* the Let keyword, it gets by on the fact that assignment is not
>> an expression.
> 
> But the grammar must still be a bit complex as sometimes the LHS of the
> = is an expression, as well as the RHS.  But I guess context makes it
> all work.  Still I've always thought the grammars for modern BASIC with
> all its baggage must make for a complex grammar.

Sigh.  So much for English grammar.  That should be "complex parser."