From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2010-02-17T01:00:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Why no ++ and --?

lith wrote:
>> ++ and -- (both prefix and postfix), were they to be added to Ruby, should
>> be implemented as little more than syntactic sugar.
> 
> I find that issue interesting in a slightly different perspective.
> Shouldn't it be possible to implement that operator right in ruby and
> doesn't it point to a shortcoming that there is no way to implement it
> (other than using a decorator).

No.  The mechanics of assignment in Ruby are such that ++ is simply not 
compatible with the structure of the language.  It belongs to a 
different programming paradigm.

Best,
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