Am 22.12.2010 23:11, schrieb Laurens Van Houtven: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote: >> Am 17.12.2010 17:52, schrieb Laurens Van Houtven: >>> +1 for throwing it out of the PEP. Assignment is a thing, >>> nonlocal/global is a thing, don't mix them up :) (That in addition to >>> the grammar cleanliness argument Stephan already made) >> >> The trouble is what to make of >> >> nonlocal x = 3, y >> >> Is it two nonlocal declarations or one with a tuple assignment? >> >> Georg > > I'm not sure I understand. Isn't that another reason to throw it out? > If you don't allow such assignments, there can't be any ambiguity, > right? (Or am I missing something?) Yes and no -- there may not be an ambiguity to the parser, but still to the human. Except if you disallow the syntax in any case, requiring people to write nonlocal x = (3, y) which is then again inconsistent with ordinary assignment statements. Georg
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