[J3] Instead of += etc

[Bill Long]

I don’t understand the “Of course” below.  It’s hard to imagine a rational person wanting -= or /=.  += and *= make sense, and that is why those (and only those) were proposed. 

Cheers,
Bill


> On Oct 31, 2018, at 6:28 PM, Van Snyder via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
> 
> C-like "operators" such as += are occasionally proposed.  Of course, if
> one wants +=, one also wants -=, *= and /=, but /= is already .NE.

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