Overloadable Assignment PEP

[Jp Calderone]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:11:36PM -0800, Drew Moore wrote:
> Howdy! 
> 
> I submitted a pre-PEP on overloadable assignment. 

  -1e100

  Why?

  Assignment is not an object operator.  It's a name operator.

  "x = y" doesn't operate on the object "x" references or the object "y"
references, it operates on x and y.

  Jp

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