On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:55 PM, Łukasz Langa <luk...@langa.pl> wrote:
> > > On 25 Apr, 2018, at 1:28 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > > > You don't seem to grasp the usability improvements this will give. I > hear you but at this point appeals to Python's "Zen" don't help you. > > This reads dismissive to me. I did read the PEP and followed the > discussion on > python-dev. I referred to PEP 20 because it distills what's unique about > the > value proposition of Python. It's our shared vocabulary. > > Perhaps so, but no PEP is chiselled in stone, and I would suggest that PEP 20 is the least authoritative from a didactic point of view. > Can you address the specific criticism I had? To paraphrase it without PEP > 20 > jargon: > > > (name := expression) makes code less uniform. It inserts more > information > > into a place that is already heavily packed with information (logic > tests). > > One could argue the same about list comprehensions if one chose: they make code denser (by expressing the same algorithm in a shorter spelling). I'm not sure what you mean by "less uniform."
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