The demise of T[new]

[Michel Fortin]

On 2009-10-19 10:14:02 -0400, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> said:

> == Quote from downs (default_357-line at yahoo.de)'s article
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> 
>>> Probably not. But you can rewrite:
>>> 
>>> a ~= stuff;
>>> 
>>> as:
>>> 
>>> a = a ~ stuff;
>>> 
>>> to make it work.
>> Is there any reason the first can't be a short-hand for the second?
> 
> Devil's advocate because I somewhat agree with you:  a = a ~ stuff; is so
> inefficient that it should be ugly.

I'd call that a premature optimization of the programmer's behavior. :-)

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