Re: If I was going to add these, I'd more likely implement them as functions...

Combination assignment operators (+=, *=, etc.) are pretty normal, even in BASIC, so are SHL/SHR operators (and combination shift/assign like `a shr= b`).

If QB64 is going to have an awesome IDE, I'd assume that pressing F1 while the cursor is on `*=` would bring up the appropriate help information. (*= is certainly less confusing than all of the new type suffix symbols that QB64 added..)