PATCH: Augmented assignment

Jake Speed speed at ?.com
Thu Jun 15 10:11:03 EDT 2000


m.faassen at vet.uu.nl (Martijn Faassen) wrote in 
<8ianhh$dro$3 at newshost.accu.uu.nl>:

>Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> wrote:
>[discussion on naming]
>
>Since there's a discussion about naming anyway, I'd like to ask what
>the 'ad' stands for in __add_ad__? This may be another datapoint
>in the discussion. :)

"and becomes", from Algol-68.

http://x58.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=629676074

Apparently the 'b' got flipped :^)

-Speed!



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