From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2002-10-11T12:19:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know

Thanks sir David for the note.
Do you think it is (im)possible ever to be included in the future?

I am asking since this is one of my favorites (My c++/clipper are full of
these..). Guess I have to welcome myself fully to ruby's succ and
iterators... Iterators are a lot of help though imho...



> David of dblack@candle.superlink.net enlightens:
> 
>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 :-)