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From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them.
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:42:10 +1100
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On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> This sets RegisterAX to 2. Specifically, positive 2. If you want to
> *add* 2, you probably meant to write:
>
>     RegisterAX += 2
>
> This also points out a good reason for using spaces around operators,
> as "RegisterAX =+ 2" would have caused a SyntaxError and been more
> easily detectable.

Err, no. Even with spaces, it works just fine, because unary plus is
allowed to be separated from its operand with spaces:

>>> x=1
>>> x =+ 2
>>> x = + 3
>>> x
3

However, this is a reasonable call for the abolition of unary plus...

ChrisA