[Python-ideas] Quick idea: defining variables from functions that take the variable name

[Sven R. Kunze]

On 01.06.2016 01:46, Ian Foote wrote:
> This is the first syntax I've seen in this thread that seems reasonably
> intuitive and pythonic. I don't mind particularly the keyword used (def
> or something else), but this structure draws the right parallels in my mind.

Still nobody explained why it needs a special syntax at all.

Normal assignment could do it as well as long as the assignment tells 
the RHS under what name it will be referred to.


Best,
Sven