From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-17T19:27:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Keyword "with"

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:54:44PM +0900, Anders Borch wrote:
> Now, any file loaded with loadpp may contain the ++ operator, and it 
> will be replaced with '+= 1'. Have fun with it if you like :)

It might be better to replace foo++ with (foo=foo.succ) because it will work
on things other than numbers - except for some reason there doesn't seem to
be any 'pred', so you can't implement foo-- in this way :-(

irb(main):003:0> "fred".succ
=> "free"

Regards,

Brian.