Compound Assignment Operators ( +=, *=, etc...)

[Magnus L. Hetland]

Tom Christiansen <tchrist at mox.perl.com> writes:

> 
> As to why there's no x++ there, consider how often people from a
> Pascal(ish) background are confused between x+1 and x++ and ++x, and
> you'll begin to see what kind of problems caused it to be vetoed.
> 

Hm. I would have thought that the reason for this is more that x++ is,
in fact, an expression, an allowing this would amount to allowing a
special case of assignment expressions... Or?

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