Is it just Syntactic Sugar ?

Cliff Crawford cjc26 at nospam.cornell.edu
Wed May 31 22:48:55 EDT 2000


* Eric Hagemann <ehagemann at home.com> menulis:
| At the risk of pushing on what seems to be a good idea let's not forget
| the 'other "and becomes" operators as well (*=,/=,>>=,<<=...... etc)

These don't really make sense for non-numeric classes.  For example,
what would *= used on lists do?  You could say that l *= n is equivalent
to l = l * n, but is that really useful?  I've never seen or used such a
construct before.


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