On Dec 20, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> A good point. Shall I write a PEP asking for a language change which > requires that that stupid = sign is replaced by a keyword reading something > like thenameonthelefthandsideisassignedtheobjectontherighthandside ? Or a symbol like :=. As a former Smalltalker, I still miss this as the assignment operator, and the “gets” verbiage that went along with it. One said: x := 4 as in “x gets 4” I always got a kick out of the following paragraph from http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html. "1970 - Niklaus Wirth creates Pascal, a procedural language. Critics immediately denounce Pascal because it uses "x := x + y" syntax instead of the more familiar C-like "x = x + y". This criticism happens in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented." -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
