> I didn't suggest we turned augmented assignment 'on' in beta phase, and > removed it if it turned out too confusing. I was thinking more along the > lines of the recent 'usability study' of parallel loops. Urging people to > install the patch just to see how it works, and if it works how they > expected. > > The point is we can argue all year long about how <this> will be confusing > because of <that>, and <this> too confusing for users of <that>, and this > too confusing if you come from <that> language. We probably all are right, > too ! But in the end we have to decide whether the new functionality is > worth the extra confusion. And part of that is determining how confusing the > new syntax and semantics really are, for those used to Python and those new > to Python. Oh please. Augmented assignment is about the most requested feature. Every other language that Python newbies are likely familiar with has it in exactly the same form. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://dinsdale.python.org/~guido/)
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