From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-10-11T10:46:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know

Hi --

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-1] "Pe�a, Botp" wrote:

>
>
> > Peter Hickman [mailto:peter@semantico.com] informs
> >
> > Ruby has no pre/post increment operator!
> >
> > x++ or x-- will fail to parse.
> >
>
> I hope this is in ruby's wish list :-)

If you search for ++ -- on http://www.ruby-talk.org, you'll see a lot
of past discussion about this, including explanations from Matz about
the unsuitability of these for Ruby.  The short version is: no :-)


David

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