id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,lang,patch,platform
1432,Remove 2-argument math ops,whiteknight,,"I would like to propose a removal of the various 2-argument math ops. These are the ""in place ops"", where:
{{{
foo a, b
}}}
performs this operation:
{{{
a = a foo b
}}}
And for many, corresponds to the symbolic operator:
{{{
a foo= b
}}}
To my knowledge, all two-argument ops can be more easily rewritten in terms of three-argument ops. In fact, most 2-argument ops are already implemented like this internally.
{{{
a = foo a, b
}}}
These 2-argument forms don't provide any real benefit because they perform the same operations internally as the 3-argument variants, plus they add significant bulk to the in-memory list of ops and create a maintenance burden when they need to be updated. The only benefit that I can see is a small amount of programmer convenience for people who want to use them but don't want to use the ""op="" symbolic ops (which can easily be remapped to the 3-argument forms inside IMCC).

I would like to put in a deprecation notice for these ops and remove them at the earliest possible point.
",RFC,closed,normal,,core,2.0.0,medium,wontfix,,,,,