Re: proposal for new assignment operators

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Russ <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote:
: 
:> Your syntax is *in*compatible with the co-existence of the '=' operator and
:> the ':=' assignment symbol. In your proposal, x :? y,
:> for some operator ?, means: "x is assigned the value of (x ? y)".
:> 
:  The ":=" symbol obviously
: should not be redefined for this special case. So the answer to your
: question is that a := b would assign b to a.

special casing for operators...
Searching goole for
 "augmented assignment" -python
turn up some interesting material.

: It wouldn't be useful anyway. After all, none of the languages with
: "+=" have "===", do they?

They do. However, += need not be what you think it is.


Georg