5 Jun
2000
5 Jun
'00
5 a.m.
"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