>>>>> Simon Forman <sajmik...@gmail.com> (SF) wrote: >SF> Why would you even tell the poor bastards about "+=" before they were >SF> comfortable with (python's style of) function calls, immutable >SF> integers, mutable lists and immutable tuples?
>SF> Let them use "x = x + y" until they have enough knowledge to >SF> understand "augmented" assignment. And *then* you can tell them that "x += y" can be subtly different from "x = x + y", which is what happened in the example that the OP gave. -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> URL: http://pietvanoostrum.com [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: p...@vanoostrum.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
