Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 572 contradicts PEP 3099

2018-04-29 Thread Greg Ewing
Nick Coghlan wrote: On 29 April 2018 at 12:52, Greg Ewing > wrote: Alex Walters wrote: PEP 3099 is the big list of things that will not happen in Python 3. "There will be no alternative binding operators such as :=." The thread refer

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 572 contradicts PEP 3099

2018-04-29 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 29 April 2018 at 12:52, Greg Ewing wrote: > Alex Walters wrote: > >> PEP 3099 is the big list of things that will not happen in Python 3. >> >> "There will be no alternative binding operators such as :=." >> > > The thread referenced by that is taling about a different issue, > i.e. using a di

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 572 contradicts PEP 3099

2018-04-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 1:11 PM, Alex Walters wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Python-Dev > list=sdamon@python.org> On Behalf Of Greg Ewing >> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2018 10:53 PM >> To: 'Python-Dev' >> Subject: Re:

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 572 contradicts PEP 3099

2018-04-28 Thread Alex Walters
> -Original Message- > From: Python-Dev list=sdamon@python.org> On Behalf Of Greg Ewing > Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2018 10:53 PM > To: 'Python-Dev' > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 572 contradicts PEP 3099 > > Alex Walters wrote: > > PEP

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 572 contradicts PEP 3099

2018-04-28 Thread Greg Ewing
Alex Walters wrote: PEP 3099 is the big list of things that will not happen in Python 3. "There will be no alternative binding operators such as :=." The thread referenced by that is taling about a different issue, i.e. using a different symbol to rebind names in an outer scope. -- Greg _

[Python-Dev] PEP 572 contradicts PEP 3099

2018-04-28 Thread Alex Walters
PEP 3099 is the big list of things that will not happen in Python 3. Everything on that list is still true, 12 years after it was posted. However... "There will be no alternative binding operators such as :=." While earlier versions of PEP 572 avoided breaking this declaration, the current versio