On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:27:31 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> Congratulations, you just reinvented one of the most infamous source of >> bugs in C, C++, Java, PHP, javascript and quite a few other languages. >> Believe it or not, but not allowing this in Python was a very deliberate >> design choice. > > Oh, but those hundreds of thousands of man-hours lost to bugs caused by > assignment-as-an-expression is nothing compared to the dozens of man- > minutes saved by having one fewer line of code! > > > *wink*
And if I ever find the genius who had the brilliant idea of using = to mean assignment then I have a particularly nasty dungeon reserved just for him. Also a foul-smelling leech-infested swamp for those language designers and compiler writers who followed his example. (Come to think of it, plagiarizing a bad idea is probably the worse evil.) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
