On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:11 PM, <random...@fastmail.us> wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2015, at 18:02, BartC wrote: >> (I think I would have picked up "++" and "--" as special tokens even if >> increment/decrement ops weren't supported. Just because they would >> likely cause errors through misunderstanding.) > > There's precedent for not doing this in C itself - even though "=+" > (from very early versions of C, also =-, =*, =&) no longer acts as an > add-in-place operator, it's not recognized as a special token to prevent > errors either.
Given that the in-place operators changed to +=, -=, etc very early on, I doubt there's anyone who is actually confused by them. And it'd be extremely annoying to have to stop and think about parsing rules when taking or dereferencing pointers: /* This works */ x = &y; /* Why shouldn't this? */ x=&y; To the greatest extent possible, spaces around assignment operators should be the domain of style guides, not syntax. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
