[Python-Dev] Re: Is it just Syntactic Sugar ?

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "TW" == Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> writes:

  TW> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:49:57PM +0000, Guido van Rossum
  TW> wrote:
  >> I know I shouldn't be posting in this thread, and I won't be
  >> there to read the responses, but here's what I thought would be
  >> cool.

  >> x+=y is syntactic sugar for x=x.__add_ab__(y); the "ab" means
  >> "and becomes" (an old Algol-68 naming convention; we could pick
  >> something better later but this will do for the explanation).

  [...]

  TW> This was what I had in mind, and was trying to explain. Does you
  TW> voicing your opinion mean someone (you ? someone else ?) is
  TW> working on this, or soon going to work on this ? 

I don't believe anyone at PythonLabs is working on this now, certainly
not Guido or I.

Jeremy