From: Robert Dober Date: 2008-08-29T22:43:13+09:00 Subject: Re: Please don't flame me...why is there no "++" in Ruby again ? On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Phlip wrote: > Roger Pack wrote: >> >> David Masover wrote: >>> >>> ... Then again, why pollute our namespace with an operator that would see >>> so >>> little use? I can't remember the last time I had to use "+=1" in Ruby. >> >> I wish we had it. But that's just me. > > Ruby doesn't use ++ because that would .succ! No it would not, and if you have good memories you know who was the fool who proposed succ! once, LOL. The worst is that this confusion is totally my fault because I was talking about Integer's immutability completely out of context. Sorry. R. > > -- http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/ There's no one thing that's true. It's all true. -- Ernest Hemingway