In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Specifically an easier way of doing it provided by the language syntax >(hence "syntactic sugar"). As in, "the form 'foo += 1' is syntactic >sugar for 'foo = foo + 1'".
Except, of course, that it isn't, quite. ;-) -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Many customs in this life persist because they ease friction and promote productivity as a result of universal agreement, and whether they are precisely the optimal choices is much less important." --Henry Spencer http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list