Oct. 27, 2003
3:28 a.m.
Alex Martelli <aleaxit@yahoo.com>:
Ideally, augmented assignments would also become "rebinding". However, this may have compatibility problems.
Unfortunately yes. It might have been better to define them that way in the first place, but changing them now is dubious.
I'm not so sure. You need an existing binding before an augmented assignment will work, so I don't think there can be any correct existing usages that would be broken by this. Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+