Nick Timkovich writes: > I think the best way to remove compound operators would be to go > back in time and hit Dennis Ritchie with a bat at the exact moment > when the notion of them crosses his mind.
True enough as a concept, but Python didn't have to implement them for immutables. It might have been interesting to allow in-place operations only for mutables. Dunno if Guido thought of that at the time, and I suspect that a lot of the voices that convinced him to go against his instincts wanted them specifically for integers (a lot of people wanted "++" and "--", too). So even if he did think of it, it might not have satisfied the proponents that their needs were being addressed. > Except Perl. Please don't. Perl has its weaknesses, but it has its strengths too. I suspect that Python regexps were strongly influenced by PCRE, and that the Cheeseshop has borrowed a feature or two from CPAN. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
