PATCH: Augmented assignment

[Thomas Wouters]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:07:52AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:

> What about __add_is__? This sounds like addish, a kind of add; it resembles
> its use, plus followed by is; would prevent confusion of where to place the
> r like in __r_inplace_add__ versus __inplace_radd__; and still is concise:)

Well, that last bit is a non-issue, at least as far as I'm concerned,
because an augmented assignment doesn't need a 'right-hand' hook: The
new hook is called to change the left-hand-side object in-place, and you
shouldn't expect the right-hand-side object to know how to do that to the
lhs object. *that* would be confusing ;-)

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Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>

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