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

[Terry Reedy]

"Boris Borcic" <bborcic at gmail.com> wrote in 
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| Title says it all. Got used to += et al. My mind often expects augmented
| assignment syntax to exist uniformly for whatever transform.

I the analogy can be improved.

x += y # abbreviates
x = x + y # which could have been defined to have been written
x = +(x,y) # and which usually *is* equivalent to x = type(x).__add__(x,y)

Hence by analogy, I would rewrite
x = f(x,y) # as
x f= y # ;-)

Making the obvious generalization to n params, and specializing to one, 
gives

x f=

tjr