From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2002-10-11T17:43:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know

Hello Peter,

Friday, October 11, 2002, 12:37:03 PM, you wrote:

PH> The x+=1 and x-=1 constructs can only be used as prefix operators, as in:

irb(main):007:0>> x = 3
PH> 3
irb(main):008:0>> (x+=1) * 2
PH> 8
irb(main):009:0>> x
PH> 4

i don't understand this. may be your figure out that (x+=1)*=2
construstion is impossible?



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