Augmented Assignement (was: Re: PEP scepticism)

[piet at cs.uu.nl]

>>>>> Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak at knm.org.pl> (MK) writes:

MK> 02 Jul 2001 20:18:50 +0200, Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl> pisze:
SH> I've always liked having a colon on my assignment operator - I think
SH> the single = for assignment was a mistake. If we had := for
SH> assignment, then augmented assignments would be more clearly distinct
SH> from other operators - :+=, :-=, :*= etc etc.
>> 
>> Should be +:=, like in Algol 68.

MK> Or :+, like in Comal AFAIR. "x :+ y" is composed of two substrings of
MK> "x := x + y"; "x +:= y" is not.

It *is*, just in a different order.
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