From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-01-11T07:45:20+09:00
Subject: Re: dot-equals method?

> The . has a somewhat different status than + or *, though.
>
>     x += 1       ==     x = x.+ 1
>     x *= 1       ==     x = x.* 1
>
>     x .= split   ?=     x = x.. split

Why can't we say:

x += 2     ==     x = x + 2
x *= 2     ==     x = x + 2
x .= foo   ==     x = x . foo

I don't see the extra collapsing syntax (yes I realize that '.' is
different from '+', but syntatically they are used the same).

Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137