[HN Gopher] Peculiar Self-References
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       Peculiar Self-References
        
       Author : susam
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2021-11-18 11:19 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | cecilpl2 wrote:
       | Neat idea! Seems like the following less-confusing assignment
       | also works:
       | 
       | a = [0]
       | 
       | a[0] = a
        
         | tshaddox wrote:
         | Yeah, this article is more about the chained assignment syntax
         | in Python which might not be on the radar for a lot of Python
         | coders. There's nothing particularly interesting about the
         | self-reference. You can do the same thing with bog-standard
         | idiomatic code: just make an empty list and append it to
         | itself.
        
       | malf wrote:
       | This is the first true "PHPism" I've seen in a "real language".
       | (Is there a name for "we didn't want the general thing (e.g.
       | assignment expressions) but we wanted one narrow subset of it
       | (serial assignment), so we implemented that, but with different
       | semantics for no good reason"?)
        
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