Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com>: > > Ideally, augmented assignments would also become "rebinding". However, > > this may have compatibility problems. > > Unfortunately yes. It might have been better to define them that way in > the first place, but changing them now is dubious. I'm not so sure. You need an existing binding before an augmented assignment will work, so I don't think there can be any correct existing usages that would be broken by this. Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+
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