Re: [Oorexx-devel] Assignment operators

[Lee P. <le...@sa...>]

I'll gladly enter the RFE :-) , but I'd like to have some feedback on my choice of operators first. 
  And possibly any other desired operators I might have omitted.

Lee

Rick McGuire wrote:
> Of course, I should point out that things like this are more likely to 
> be implemented if somebody actually opens an RFE requesting it....
> 
> Rick
> 
> On 6/13/07, * Lee Peedin* <le...@sa... 
> <mailto:le...@sa...>> wrote:
> 
>     Well, I can assure you that even though David & I work in the same
>     office, we hadn't discussed this
>     before he sent his message; however, Matt & I were, in fact,
>     discussing it on Monday.
> 
>     How about something like this:
> 
>     astring = 'Hello'
>     avar    = 5
> 
>     astring &= 'World'  --> Hello World
>     astring &== 'World  --> HelloWorld
> 
>     avar += 2 --> 7
>     avar -= 2 --> 3
>     avar *= 2 --> 10
>     avar \\=  --> 2.5
>     avar **=  --> 25
> 
>     Just my 2 cents.
> 
>     Lee
> 
> 
> 
>     Rick McGuire wrote:
>      > I've considered the possibility of adding constructs like +=,
>     etc., and
>      > I think it can be easily done.  However, don't get your hopes up
>     that
>      > "+=" might be used for concatenate.  The definition of something like
>      >
>      >     a += b
>      >
>      > would be
>      >
>      >     a = a + b
>      >
>      > which would be addition, not concatenation.  And since Rexx
>     strings are
>      > used for both numbers and string values, the definition of "+" can't
>      > easily be converted to concatenate.
>      >
>      > Rick
>      >
>      > On 6/12/07, *David Ruggles* < da...@sa...
>     <mailto:da...@sa...>
>      > <mailto:da...@sa... <mailto:da...@sa...>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     I'm ducking even as I write this. :)
>      >
>      >     I apologize if this request violates the very tenets of Rexx,
>     but
>      >     here goes:
>      >
>      >     Would it be within the scope of the Rexx Language to in
>     include a +=
>      >     string
>      >     concatenate?
>      >
>      >     So instead of writing:
>      >     String = string 'more string stuff'
>      >     You could do:
>      >     String += 'more string stuff'
>      >
>      >     Thanks,
>      >
>      >     David Ruggles
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