> Admitting-I-haven't-read-the-new-wonderful-documentation-yet,
No need -- the new schemes are rigidly consistent right now, and what
you've inferred by example is the truth.
> ...
> a, b, c, d, e = \
> the_result_of_a_function_returning_a_quintuple()
>
> where I don't know what I would've wanted, honestly.
Ya, this is where it gets hard. In most cases we probably want a
continued assignment to indent past the leftmost assigning "=" on the
base line, but in this case that rule would yield the useless
a, b, c, d, e = \
the_result_of_a_function_returning_a_quintuple()
Indenting past the base line's leftmost chunk of non-whitespace
characters instead (as is currently done) may be the best guess I can
make here. But the "there is _something_ interesting after an assigning
'=' on the base line" is a different case, and happy to treat it
differently.
still-collecting-icky-examples-ly y'rs - tim
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