From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-24T10:46:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20230] Re: ++ Operator

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:20206] Re: ++ Operator"
    on 01/08/24, Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:

|Matz:
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|Is there any logical difference between a++ and a.succ!

The difference is the fact that since Numeric is immutable, a.succ! is
not possible. "++" is fundamentally an assignment.

							matz.