Augmented assignment (was Re: Something in the function tutorial confused me.)

[Aahz]

In article <semvi.47351$Wo7.893986 at phobos.telenet-ops.be>,
Roel Schroeven  <rschroev_nospam_ml at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>I used to interpret the target in 'The target is only evaluated once' 
>more like an L-value in C/C++. That's not correct, of course, but I 
>didn't understand exactly how wrong it was until now.

It's true almost everywhere except augmented assignment.  Augmented
assignment is a prime example of the compromises one needs to make in
adding features.
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