From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-08-29T06:25:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Please don't flame me...why is there no "++" in Ruby again ?

John Pritchard-williams wrote:
> There's must be very good simple reason why there is no 'x++' method
> Ruby right?
> 
> Just generally interested why there isn't....
> 
> I did check my Ruby books by the way, but they just "unlike C there is
> no ++ operator in Ruby...." :)

In ruby, operators are methods and they operate on objects, not on 
variables.

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