[Python-Dev] Re: Is it just Syntactic Sugar ?
Jeremy Hylton
jeremy@beopen.com
Mon, 5 Jun 2000 01:00:06 -0400 (EDT)
>>>>> "TW" == Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> writes:
TW> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:49:57PM +0000, Guido van Rossum
TW> wrote:
>> I know I shouldn't be posting in this thread, and I won't be
>> there to read the responses, but here's what I thought would be
>> cool.
>> x+=y is syntactic sugar for x=x.__add_ab__(y); the "ab" means
>> "and becomes" (an old Algol-68 naming convention; we could pick
>> something better later but this will do for the explanation).
[...]
TW> This was what I had in mind, and was trying to explain. Does you
TW> voicing your opinion mean someone (you ? someone else ?) is
TW> working on this, or soon going to work on this ?
I don't believe anyone at PythonLabs is working on this now, certainly
not Guido or I.
Jeremy