[Python-ideas] x )= f as shorthand for x=f(x)

[Boris Borcic]

Steven Bethard wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2007 7:39 AM, Boris Borcic <bborcic at 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.
> 
> I'm not really a Guido channeler, but I'd guess this has about a 0%
> chance of ever making it into Python.
> 
> Function calls in Python are indicated by () following the function
> name.  Your proposal puts the parentheses (or one of them) *before*
> the function name. Breaking the consistency here seems like an
> *extremely* bad idea.


I contend that   x )= f   captures some perfume of the invariant you mention, 
although I admit there is no comparably simple formula for the relaxed invariant 
(if indeed it exists).

Note that current python syntax requires any ) to follow a ( that it balances,
so that's not one but two rules broken in coordination.

(-1)*(-1)==(+1)-ly yours,

Boris Borcic
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