Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Yes, print as a statement was a mistake. But assignment as a statement, >> not so much. Assignment as an expression in languages that have it tends >> to be associated with frequent errors. >> >> The way I see it, if something operates by side-effect, then it has no >> business being treated as an expression. > > Wikipedia (that well-known authority) lists among examples of side > effects both "write data to a display or file" and "modify one of its > arguments". [...]
Good point. I withdraw my statement about things that operate about side-effects. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
