Re: expressions vs. statements

[Justin Sheehy <address@hidden>]

Tony Kimball <alk@pobox.com> writes:

> : It isn't just that.  It's the bugs caused by unintentional use of "="
> : when the programmer wanted "==".
>
> That's why = is a bad choice for :=.  '=' is a declarative statement,
> not an imperative one, in the global nomenclature.

I agree.

However, having it be a nonambiguous statment of any kind is of more
value than having it be a declarative statement.  

I wouldn't have chosen "=" for assignment , but I prefer its use in
Python to its use in C.

-Justin