[J3] Why is += missing?

Thomas König tk at tkoenig.net
Fri Sep 3 16:32:28 UTC 2021


On 02.09.21 09:10, Malcolm Cohen via J3 wrote:
> As Van said, the alternatives to op= are trivial.

Assume that f is a function that returns a value depending
on the number of its invocations, then

   a(f(i)) = a(f(i)) + b

could mean something different than

   a(f(i)) += b

or not. Either way, it would have to be defined what happens.



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