Oct. 28, 2003
1:48 a.m.
Alex Martelli <aleaxit@yahoo.com>:
My slight preference for leaving += and friends alone is that a function using them to rebind nonlocals would be hard to read
Using my "outer" suggestion, augmented assignments to nonlocals would be written outer x += 1 which would make the intention pretty clear, I think. 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 +--------------------------------------+