Augmented Assignement (was: Re: PEP scepticism)

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

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.

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

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