[mooism2]

Cons:

* inconsistent with other compound assignment operators

* looks like regular expression matching operator used in other languages

Pros:

* shortens certain expressions by one character

I don't think it's worth it.

What does the search query have to do with it?

[buzzzlight]

I was just shocked that no language anywhere had thought of it yet. I can't even remember the last time I did a search that came up empty.

[mooism2]

http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=~=&type=c...