Augmented Assignement (was: Re: PEP scepticism)

[Guido van Rossum]

Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> writes:

> This thread reminds me a great deal about whether generators should be
> defined using 'def' or 'generate' -- it took me one (1) generator to realize
> how natural it was with def, and most (not all) counterarguments were
> basically trying to tell me I was wrong to feel that way :-)

Bingo!

It takes a Pythonic mind to get this feeling of what's right.  Clearly
the opponents are not Pythonic enough.  So there! :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)