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“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

(mail.python.org)
2024 points randlet | 1 comments | 12 Jul 18 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.321s | source
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js2 ◴[12 Jul 18 16:15 UTC] No.17516019[source]▶
Background ("PEP 572 and decision-making in Python"):

https://lwn.net/Articles/757713/

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jcelerier ◴[12 Jul 18 16:26 UTC] No.17516132[source]▶
> The problem with the C-style of assignments is that it leads to this classic error: if(x = 0) {...}

yeah, if you code on 20 years old compilers with no warnings. GCC 4.1 warns about this (with -Wall) and Clang 3.4 warns about this too, without any warning flag.

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1. raverbashing ◴[12 Jul 18 20:07 UTC] No.17518178[source]▶
Warnings in Python are very rare, and only for good reasons

Throwing warnings for "common code" would be uncharacteristic.