Jim Jewett wrote:
On 11/9/07, Boris Borcic bborcic@gmail.com wrote:
Title says it all. Got used to += et al. My mind often expects augmented assignment syntax to exist uniformly for whatever transform.
Agreed.
Whether it is worth the costs is a different question. I'm not sure it is, and I'm sure it isn't with this particular syntax.
If I am not mistaken, python syntax doesn't permit augmented assignment operators to sit between parens so that )= wouldn't risk confusing quick machine- or eye-scans to match parens.
There are plenty of tools (and plenty of eyes, including mine) that don't use the full ruleset.
A parenthesis inside a string has no syntactic meaning. In practice, it still messes up some syntax colorings.
(1, 2, """3, 4)""", 5)
Point was, in a syntactically correct program, the proposed operator can not occur /at all/ inside the span of an opened parenthesis, so this type of confusion isn't possible.
BB
I don't think there is any reason to encourage the use of unmatched parentheses for any purpose.
-jJ