A Suggestion for Python Colon Syntax

[Steve Holden]

Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.977594969.22002.python-list at python.org...
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:50:28PM +0000, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
>
> >  BTW, what was the real rationale for adding composed assignment
operators
> > (+=) to Python 2.0 (which I'm really extremely glad to have now)? Wasn't
> > it meant to make Python more attractive to the people coming from C-lie
> > languages?
>
> No, honestly not. If that was the case, '++' and '--' would have been
added
> too. The funny part is that I never saw a concious decision not to add
them
> being made, everyone involved (Guido, Michael Hudson, me, the rest of
> python-dev) seemed to naturally accept that the auto-inc/dec operators had
> no place in Python, and that in itself is plenty of validation, don't you
> think ? :-)
>
>
Guido-probably-made-all-decisions-about-Python-years-ago--he's-just-waiting-
>  -for-people-to-_implement_-them-ly y'rs,

No.  He _will_ make them years ago, once concensus has appeared in the
present.

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paradoxical-ly y'rs  - steve