>I, for one, see absolutely nothing wrong with += etc. since it's an unambiguous idiom which came into use decades ago and is now almost universally understood.
I see one: compatibility with other compilers, though I exclusively use FPC, some people in groups I'm involved in asks general Pascal/Delphi questions, which I can't answer with this C-ish feature. -- View this message in context: http://free-pascal-general.1045716.n5.nabble.com/Feature-proposal-function-based-assignment-operators-tp5713868p5713910.html Sent from the Free Pascal - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal