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Re: Ifs and assignments

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On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Personally, I find it hard to care about assignment as an expression. I find
> the obvious C-inspired syntax terrible, as it is too easy to mistakenly use
> == instead of = or visa versa:

Python has similar problems, though. It's inherent to the nature of
symbolic languages.

a = (1, 2, 3)
b = {1, 2, 3}

In many fonts, it's hard to tell one from the other without peering.
Do people decry set literal notation in favour of explicitly writing
the word "set"? No; and I think most of us agree that it's better to
have the symbols. At least with == vs = there's a length difference. I
don't think it's C's fault or problem that equality and assignment
look similar and can be used in the same places, any more than it's a
problem to have assignment and subtraction differ by only one stroke:

a - (1, 2, 3)

Is that confusingly similar to assignment?

ChrisA

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Re: Ifs and assignments Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-01-02 19:45 -0500
  Re: Ifs and assignments Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-03 14:33 +1100
    Re: Ifs and assignments Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 14:49 +1100
      Re: Ifs and assignments Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-02 23:14 -0500
        Re: Ifs and assignments Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 15:25 +1100
        Re: Ifs and assignments Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-03 04:29 +0000
      Re: Ifs and assignments Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2014-01-03 15:46 +0000
    Re: Ifs and assignments Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 14:55 +1100
      Re: Ifs and assignments Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-02 23:00 -0500
        Re: Ifs and assignments Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 15:08 +1100

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