From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2010-02-17T03:09:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Why no ++ and --?

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> wrote:

> In practice it is, because when people say "x++", they don't want the variable
> x to refer to a new object, they want the object x refers to increased.

Don't agree with that. For me the contract is just about the variable.
People do not want to be able to do ++5, you can't do that in
languages that offer ++ either.