they should've done something similar to Go's approach. where you could write `if x := 10; x != 10 { // do something }` where the first is an assignment statement and the second is a comparison expression. in python it would look something like this `if x = 10; x != 10: #...`,(reply>), x = val1<br>if x != val2:<br>    do something<br><br>if you like one liners<br>x = val1; if x != val2: statement,(reply>), @A Happy Kangaroo he was proposing an alternative