Random Suggestion: Swap Operator <=>?

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Michiel Helvensteijn wrote:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> 
>> A more general solution is supporting tuples in the language, then you can
>> do something like:
>> a, b = b, a;
> 
> That's a great feature. But even if it's available, I'd use swap, because:
> 
> * I wouldn't have to mention each variable twice
> * It would use move-operations rather than copy operations
> 
> Parallel assignment is still useful for other stuff, like traversing the
> fibonachi sequence with two variables :-)
> 
> (a, b) <- (b, a + b);
> 
	Or when you need to reorder more than two variables:

a, b, c, d = b, d, a, c;

		Jerome
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