From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2010-09-10T00:55:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32238] Re: Ruby 2.0 Wiki/Wish-list?

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:32213] Re: Ruby 2.0 Wiki/Wish-list?"
    on Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:46:54 +0000, Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@headius.com> writes:

|FWIW, though, I still like the idea of having ++ as sugar for += 1, if
|only because it's two+ fewer characters to type.

I rarely have used x += 1; I'd rather consider x += 1 as code smell
(hint: use iterators).  So reducing key strokes here may not be
effective.

|In fact, if you slide the 1 over on top of the =, it almost looks like
|++ (ok, it's more like +± or +≠, but hey, -> doesn't *really* look
|like a λ).

GRIN

							matz.