From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-24T03:47:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20195] Re: ++ Operator

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:20191] Re: ++ Operator"
    on 01/08/24, Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

|Yet, from the "parsing" point of view (excuse the potential improper use
|of this term), if `counter += 1' is effectively shorthand for `counter =
|counter + 1', why `counter ++' could not be shortand for `counter += 1'?
|
|If this is done early enough in the code, I think this should be possible?

It's possible.  But do you think this is what you really want?
Think about "a++", where a = "foo" for example.  I think it's
confusing, rather than useful.

							matz.