Re: Beginner question - How to effectively pass a large list
"Donn Cave" <donn@drizzle.c om> wrote in message news:<107190030 0.434091@yasure >...[color=blue]
> Quoth Jp Calderone <exarkun@intarw eb.us>:[/color]
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> |The maybe-mutate-maybe-rebind semantics of += lead me to avoid its use
> | in most circumstances.
>
> This tacky feature certainly ought to be considered for the
> chopping block in version 3, for exactly that reason.
>[/color]
And go back to 'someVariableNa me = someVariableNam e + 1' to do
the simple increment? The various 'assignment' operators are
popular with good reason imho.
Perhaps what should be considered is making sure that operators which
appear to be assignment operators actually (and consistently) behave as
such.
"Donn Cave" <donn@drizzle.c om> wrote in message news:<107190030 0.434091@yasure >...[color=blue]
> Quoth Jp Calderone <exarkun@intarw eb.us>:[/color]
[color=blue]
> |The maybe-mutate-maybe-rebind semantics of += lead me to avoid its use
> | in most circumstances.
>
> This tacky feature certainly ought to be considered for the
> chopping block in version 3, for exactly that reason.
>[/color]
And go back to 'someVariableNa me = someVariableNam e + 1' to do
the simple increment? The various 'assignment' operators are
popular with good reason imho.
Perhaps what should be considered is making sure that operators which
appear to be assignment operators actually (and consistently) behave as
such.
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