On 06/05/2015 12:19, Gregory Ewing wrote:
BartC wrote:
So why pretend that ++ and -- don't exist?
Probably because Python would gain very little from
having them.
Main uses of ++ in C are things like integer for
loops:
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {...
and stepping through arrays:
a[i++] = b[j++];
Python code usually operates at a higher level than
that.
I think even in Python it is sometimes necessary to increment things (as
the OP did).
But I had in mind not implementing ++ and --, but detecting them and
issuing a warning, so forcing someone to type "+ +" or to use
parentheses, which is unlikely to be much of an imposition as how often
are two unary pluses going to be used together?
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