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

[Georg Brandl]

Terry Reedy schrieb:
> "Boris Borcic" <bborcic at gmail.com> wrote in 
> message news:fh1rhm$ui$1 at ger.gmane.org...
> |
> | 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)

Hah, I have the solution!

x λ= f

unicode-ly yours,
Georg


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