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Expanding on (+,*,%,/,//, etc...)= operator - cuppajoeman - Feb-27-2021
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
fand 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?
RE: Expanding on (+,*,%,/,//, etc...)= operator - Gribouillis - Feb-27-2021
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.