From: ES <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2005-03-03T15:22:26+09:00
Subject: Re: post inc problem

On Thu, March 3, 2005 6:14 am, Sebesty�n G�bor said:
> Hi,
>
> A quick and dumb question: does Ruby (1.6) support postincrementation
> like C++? I mean: " x++ " expression where x is a numeric variable.

Nope; all number variables reference number objects and you can't change
those. You can use:

x += 1
x  = x + 1
x  = x.succ
x  = x.next

> Thanks,
>
> G�bor

E