Re: PATCH: += parameter assignments

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> > One possible extension beyond what ksh does would be to also add a -=
> > assignment. It could be made to prepend to string and array values
> > which would be fairly useful. Or does anyone think that that behaviour
> > for -= would be too illogical?
> 
> I would prefer += and =+ but that probably breaks ksh93 compatibility.

Using =+ as a special token would break all sorts of things fairly
horribly.

integer i=+3
i=+6

I don't imagine anyone's crying out for the prepending behaviour at the
moment.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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