On Wed, Sep 9, 2015, at 13:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > In fairness to the C creators, I'm sure that nobody back in the early > seventies imagined that malware and security vulnerabilities would be as > widespread as they have become. But still, the fundamental decisions made > by C are lousy. Assignment is an expression?
Whoa, hold on. The problem with C assignment isn't that it's an expression, it's that it's spelled "=" and can be used in contexts where one would normally do an equality comparison. In some languages (Lisp/Scheme/etc come to mind), *everything* is an expression. But assignment is spelled with, generally, some variant of "set" [setq, set!, etc]. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
