On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro<l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > I wonder how many people have been tripped up by the fact that > > ++n > > and > > --n > > fail silently for numeric-valued n.
Given that C-style for-loops are relatively infrequent in Python and are usually written using range() when they are needed, it's probably not that prevalent a problem. I suppose the lexer could be changed to make ++ and -- illegal... Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
