Editing Augmented assignment (section)

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'''Augmented assignment''' (or '''compound assignment''') is the name given to certain 
[[Assignment (computer science)|assignment]] [[operator (programming)|operator]]s in certain [[programming languages]] (especially those derived from [[C (programming language)|C]]). An augmented assignment is generally used to replace a statement where an operator takes a [[Variable (programming)|variable]] as one of its arguments and then assigns the result back to the same variable. A simple example is <code>x&nbsp;+= 1</code> which is expanded to <code>x = x + 1</code>. Similar constructions are often available for various binary operators.

In general, in languages offering this feature, most operators that can take a variable as one of their arguments and return a result of the same type have an augmented assignment equivalent that assigns the result back to the variable in place, including arithmetic operators, bitshift operators, and [[bitwise operation|bitwise operators]].