From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-11-09T23:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby doesn't implement x++ for Fixnum's because ???

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> wrote:
> On 2009-11-09, Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@marnen.org> wrote:
>> Where's the benefit?  What is some actual Ruby code that would be
>> improved by these constructs?
>
>        blahblahblah.each do |args|
>          lots of stuff lots of stuff
>          if condition
>            count += 1
>          end
>        end
>
> I'd rather see "++count".  It's easier for me to read.

Hey, I might 'rather' have C allow if statement modifiers.

And I might 'rather' have French do away with all those pesky gender
agreements and thinking of towers as feminine and a lap around a track
as masculine.

But they don't, and I find I can live with that, and I certainly have
been much happier with Ruby even without a++ or ++a than I ever was in
C/C++, and I am, or at least was, competent enough in C to do things
like writing compilers in it, and reading and understanding the Ruby
source code etc.

This whole thread is reminding me of Mark Twain's complaint about the
stupidity of the French, because he "never could get them to
understand their own language!"

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