April 26, 2017
8:51 p.m.
On 26/04/17 01:39, Nathaniel Smith wrote: [snip discussion of why current augmented assignment operators are better for other reasons]
Are there any similar arguments for .=?
It doesn't make anything more efficient, however all of the suggestions of how to do it with current syntax (mostly decorators) _do_ make things less efficient. So rather than a win/win as with current augmented assignment (compact/clearer code *and* potentially a performance improvement), it's now a tradeoff (wordy code *or* a performance reduction). E.