Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Mon Mar 18 15:03:47 CET 2013

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On 19/03/13 00:50, Neal Becker wrote:
> def F(x):
>      return x
>
> x = 2
> F(x) = 3
>
>      F(x) = 3
> SyntaxError: can't assign to function call
>
> Do we really need this restriction?  There do exist other languages without it.


What meaning would you give to "F(x) = 3", and why?



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Steven

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