Augmented assignment (ie. += and friends) for Python!

[Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton]

On Sun, 14 May 2000 11:18:39 +0200, Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>
wrote:

>Perl supplies the &&= and ||= operators as shortcuts for the above
>construct.

Hence, "$val ||= 'spam';" means "Give $val the value 'spam' unless it
had a true value previously."

Some people argue there should also be something like "$val ??= 'spam';"
meaning "Give $val the value 'spam' unless it had a *defined* value
previously."

Cheers,
Philip
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