"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote in message news:9ihg33$irjha$1 at ID-11957.news.dfncis.de... > Does it bother anyone that > > a *= 3 + 4 means a = a * (3+4) > > returns a different value from > > a = a * 3 + 4 means a = (a*3) + 4 Andreas