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All this over a god damn bikeshed that no one will care one way or the other about 6 months after its implemented. He didn't loose faith after the 2->3 transiti
by jVinc 8y ago
All this over a god damn bikeshed that no one will care one way or the other about 6 months after its implemented. He didn't loose faith after the 2->3 transitioner but but a goddamn assignment operator that works just like so many other languages.
I mean it was bound to happen at some point, but I am really disheartened that it happened in this way.
- Dowwie 8y agowhat you're seeing is the straw that broke the camel's back
- kolpa 8y agoPython's original "sales pitch" was that it was a clean and simple language. As years go by and more weird stuff is piled in, it becomes less Pythonic.
- antt 8y agoI forget which book this was from, but when I was learning python back in 2003 a major selling point was 'you can't make assignments in control structures'. Happy days to a physics undergrad who had seen more if(a=3) in C code than he could shake a stick at. Sometimes less is more. Python is turning into more is less. It doesn't need to be everything to everyone.