From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-08-13T20:16:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Background on why Ruby doesn't support ++

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Robert
Klemme<shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/13 Shajith Chacko <demerzel@gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Adam Lauper<adamlauper@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Anyone know the history on this deliberate omission?
>>
>> Matz addressed this in ruby-talk 2710:
>>
>> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/2710
>
> Basically it is a consequence of the decision to make integers
> immutable which makes assignment necessary for a variable which is
> incremented.
Makes sense, though strictly speaking x++ could be syntactic sugar for
x+=1 or x =x +1
but this would probably be very confusing for many folks for the very
reason you gave.
Cheers
Robert
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module Kernel
  alias_method :ë, :lambda
end