From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-12-19T08:23:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28888] Re: C++ preincrement operator

----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Dempsey <dempsejn@georgetown.edu>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:31 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:28882] Re: C++ preincrement operator


> yeah i agree, to be honest i was kinda surprised they didn't operate under
> the POLS

There are good and interesting reasons these operators
are not in Ruby... refer to a post long ago by Dave Thomas.
(Sorry I don't have a pointer to it.)

It's not because Matz just doesn't like these operators, but
because of a conflict of world views...

Hal