Dimensions of object-based language design
OOPSLA '87 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
An algebraic programming style for numerical software and its optimization
Scientific Programming
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Compound assignments have been created with efficiency, for handling a subset of things that simple assignments can do. This gain in efficiency is due to the interpretation of the compound assignment as a message that modifies self (“this”). However, C++ does not extend the same interpretation of compound assignments to user defined types. In this paper, we illustrate how the notion of compound assignments is natural in C++, how it can be implemented and indicate that the resulting gain in efficiency is akin to the gain in efficiency obtained by optimizing C compilers that translate complex expressions to simple ones that use compound assignments.