On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 07/11/2012 01:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> >> Who knows? Who cares? Nobody does: >> >> n -= n >> > > But I've seen this scattered through code: > > x := x - x - x
Can you enlighten us as to how this is better than either: x := -x or x := 0 - x ? I'm not seeing it. And I'm not seeing any nonnumeric that would benefit from being subtracted from itself twice (strings, arrays, sets, you can subtract them from one another but not usefully more than once). ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
