In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, OKB (not okblacke) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This sentence is phrased as though it is the whole story, but it >isn't, because the operation might not in fact wind up being an >assignment. Shouldn't there be an "except see below" or something >there, to alert the reader that in some cases a true assignment doesn't >occur? (I realize that the exception follows quite closely on the heels >of this sentence, but it doesn't follow immediately, and is separated by >a paragraph break and intervening material about the parallel to >unaugmented x = x + 1. On initial reading my tendency is to read the >end of the sentence quoted above, see a paragraph break and apparently >explanatory material, and go "oh, okay, I now have the full >specification of this syntax" when in fact I don't.)
That's a good idea -- doc patches are always welcome! -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "And if that makes me an elitist...I couldn't be happier." --JMS -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
