Operator: inappropriate wording?

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 08:15, elas tica <elasstiika at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Le mercredi 26 octobre 2022 à 22:12:59 UTC+2, Weatherby,Gerard a ecrit :
> > No. If the docs say in one place a comma is not an operator, they shouldn’t call it an operator in another place.
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> > I’ve submitted a pull request https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/98736 -- we’ll have to see what The Powers That Be think.
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> Thanks for the (merged) pull request about the "comma operator"!
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> I return to the last two quotes in the Reference Document regarding these so-called "assignment operators".
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> The entry in the glossary explains that the comma symbol is not an operator. Well, I just realized that this same entry also explains that the = symbol is not an operator, as you can see by reading the end of their response:
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> The same is true of the various assignment operators (=, += etc). They are not truly operators but syntactic delimiters in assignment statements.
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> (glossary entry link: https://docs.python.org/3/faq/programming.html#what-s-up-with-the-comma-operator-s-precedence)
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> Talking about an assignment operator in Python is even more confusing because, since Python 3.8, there is a real assignment operator, namely the walrus operator. As explained above, the correct expression would be "assignement delimiter" or "assignement statement" or "assignement symbol".
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Wording is hard. Just ask the SQL standard whether NULL is a value.

ChrisA