On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:18:20 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: >> Not so rare. Decimal uses unary plus. Don't assume +x is a no-op. [...] > Well, yes, but when would you apply it twice in a row?
My point was that unary + isn't a no-op, and therefore neither is ++. For Decimal, I can't think why you'd want to apply ++x, but for other objects, who knows? Here's a toy example: >>> class Spam(str): ... def __pos__(self): ... return self.__class__("spam " + self) ... >>> s = Spam("") >>> ++++s 'spam spam spam spam ' -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list