two ideoms at one blow: line-reading and regexp-matching

[Paul Rubin]

"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry at attbi.com> writes:
> this is a design decision in the language.  By not allowing this style of
> programming we do not have the ever so fun:
> 
> if foo = 2:
>    handle_foo()
> 
> type bugs.  Sure there are ways around it. 

So why are augmented assignments not allowed in expressions?

  if (foo += 2) < 7:
        handle_foo()

doesn't seem likely be an =/== confusion.