Il Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:53:47 +1100, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) ha scritto: > Alan Franzoni wrote: >> the += operator is syntactic sugar just to save time... if one >> doesn't use it I don't think it's a matter of beauty. > > This change can have semantic differences, and so should not be done for > anything except basic, immutable objects (such as integers). As such, it > can't be done automatically.
Yeah, that's right, it could have semantic differences, but that shouldn't be the case anyway. I mean, if I don't define an __iadd__ method, writing a += n or a = a + n is just the same, right? So, if I bother to define an __iadd__ method, I should make sure it works just the same, or I would introduce a very strange and hard-to-understand behaviour. -- Alan Franzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Togli .xyz dalla mia email per contattarmi. Remove .xyz from my address in order to contact me. - GPG Key Fingerprint (Key ID = FE068F3E): 5C77 9DC3 BD5B 3A28 E7BC 921A 0255 42AA FE06 8F3E -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
