I can't take a programming talk seriously if it declares in giant font "Less lines are better" (slide 38).

Any C program can be written as a single line, with no linebreaks - that doesn't make it "better" by any metric.

Python is built around its readability, and slide 44:

> group = match.group(1) if (match := re.match(data)) else None

is anything but. 'match' is assigned after its first use, and it took me far to long to mentally parse what it was doing.

C is different than python though. Python already forces readability things like forcing indent and newline. In most scenarios making a python program in as few lines as possble will make the program more readible.

Yes, you can. How do you think your brain learned the original way?

Intuition is defined as being based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning.

Something that is unnatural, such as an operator mixed with an expression is anything but natural, in the context of Python.

I can force myself to recognize the pattern; yes.

Also, the example I linked to in the slide show does feel somewhat intuitive (usage in a while loop).

> 1. https://speakerdeck.com/di_codes/pep-572-the-walrus-operator...

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