Are the critiques in "All the things I hate about Python" valid? (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

[bartc]

On 20/02/2018 19:35, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 1:43:41 AM UTC+13, bartc wrote:
>> In Pascal (and presumably Ada) then all the
>> gubbins need to make this work properly:
>>
>>     var x: 1..10;
>>
>>     x = 10;
>>     x = x + 1;   { error? }
> 
> Error on both statements. Pascal doesn’t allow a statement to just consist of an expression. At least, it didn’t the last time I checked.

OK, I forgot it needs := for assignment.

> Besides, it’s not clear what the point is of doing a comparison between those terms and throwing the result away.

Many languages including Python allow exactly that.

(The ones I create make it an error. Only certain kinds of expression 
terms also have versions that can meaningfully be independent statements.)

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bartc