From: Sebastian Hungerecker Date: 2007-08-24T17:15:05+09:00 Subject: Re: something I just found out, am sharing (:newbish) Dan Zwell wrote: > "+=" will actually work on any class that has "+" defined, including > custom classes. I assume it is the same with "-=", "*=", "/=", "&&=", > "||=", and any others that I may have missed... That is correct (you missed %=, |=, &=, ^=, <<=, >>=, **= and whatever /I/ may have missed), except that in case of && and || it is not necessary for the class to have anthing defined, because those aren't methods and they work independently of the object's class.