Op 05-05-15 om 18:24 schreef Rustom Mody: > Yeah I happen to me in that minuscule minority that regards '= denotes > assignment' a bigger mistake than ++
Nice to know I'm not alone. I Especially think it is a mistake, because it is then used as a reason for not allowing something like if a = b - 1: arguing it would lead to some difficult bugs. Which in my mind is arguing backwards. Either you think an assigment in a condition is useful or harmful. In the first case you then look for an assignment token or assignment syntax that is not that likely to lead to difficult to discover bugs instead of letting a possible misleading token or syntax prevent you from implementing something useful. In the second case you just state why you think an assignment in a condition is harmful. No need to hide behind awkward syntax. -- Antoon Pardon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
