On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 09:17:53AM -0700, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote:
> I don’t think it’s about the mutating update operation; I think > everyone can live with the update method there. [...] > And I think mutating update just goes along for the ride: if we end up > adding + in analogy with list concatenation, then obviously we want += > as well; if we add |, add |= as well; it we add a merge method, we’ve > already got an update method so nothing changes there; etc Indeed! It's not even that we *want* += as well as + but that the interpreter gives it to us for free, whether we want it or not. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/SNJVBCEIZUWNZHMTAVQGLPG6XGEJC24B/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
