I see python doesn't have ++ or -- operators unlike say, C. I read some reasonings talking about immutable scalars and using ++/-- doesn't make much sense in python (not sure if ++i is that far-fetched compared to the allowed i += 1)
In any case, I accidentally wrote ++n in python and it silently accepted the expression and it took me a while to debug the problem. Why are the following accepted even without a warning about syntax error? (I would expect the python grammar should catch these kind of syntax errors) >>> n = 1 >>> 2 * +++++ n 2 >>> n += 1 >>> n 2 >>> ++n 2 Karthik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
