From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2002-11-26T06:30:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know (11/24/02)

> 9. Ruby has no pre/post increment/decrement operator. For instance, x++
> or x-- will fail to parse.

Why is that?  x++ and x-- are very convenient.  I sort of understand why
++x and --x don't exist.  But why can't numbers have a "++" and "--"
method?

Daniel.