On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >But what's wrong with having a specific -= operator? It would make code more
> >readable, which is a plus. It would be obvious for people to look for such
> >before resorting to substition rules.
>
> Creeping featurism. Obscure semantics (would it do nothing if the rvalue
> is not in the lvalue? What about if the rvalue is added later?).
You say "creeping features", I say "something that would have made sense
since the beginning". The semantics would be "yes" and "yes", respectively
>
> Bruce
>
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