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I had an idea for how we write shorthand for a few binary functions (I'll use + as my example).

When we write

x += 2

, it really means

x = x + 2

, more generally since we can write addition as a binary relation, we can define it as

f

and then equivalently

x = f(x,2)

in that case, why not write the original statement as

x f= 2

?

On top of that for any function which isn't even binary, applying the same idea would yield the following shorthand for

x = g(x, a, b, c, ...)

to be

x g= a,b,c,...

What do you think?

I think lines such as x = g(x, a, b, c) are not frequent enough to deserve such a special syntactic treatment. A language's syntax is a coherent set of carefully planned rules. Every odd idea must not be implemented.