From: Seebs <usenet-nospam@...>
Date: 2009-11-09T22:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby doesn't implement x++ for Fixnum's because ???

On 2009-11-09, Tony Arcieri <tony@medioh.com> wrote:
> That's a can of worms I've been trying to avoid, as there are lexing/parsing
> ambiguities surrounding the combination of both.  How do you parse a+++b vs
> a++++b vs a+++++b?

Maximal munch.  Those are, in order:
	a++ + b
	a++ ++b (a syntax error)
	a++ ++ +b (also a syntax error)

But I think the more difficult issue is the semantics.

-s
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