+= as declaration wish

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:55:03PM -0500, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:
>Am I missing something obvious when I think that it'd be nice if you could
>do:
>
>x += 3

What does x default to if it doesn't exist?  None?  0? ""?

If it worked, I'd still explicitly set the LHS first anyway, I'm fairly sure.

Sean
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