A contrarian's point of view: > The very same operator is often misused as, or confused for, the operator for equality or assignation. It will still be confus

A contrarian's point of view: > The very same operator is often misused as, or confused for, the operator for equality or assignation. It will still be confused, I'm afraid. It's just a little less likely that that confusion will be silently accepted by the interpreter. > Also to hint people at using it only when necessary. Let's be clear: the walrus operator was never, ever, necessary. It's syntactic sugar to avoid extra lines of code. The hope is that it will be convenient and obvious enough that folks will prefer it to both extra lines of code and repeated sub-expressions, but the very advice that beginners ought to "ignore the existence of := for some time" (_plus_ the intentional deviation from other languages) suggests that this is not going to be nearly as obvious or convenient as its proponents might have wished.