On Mon, May 4, 2015, at 18:02, BartC wrote: > (I think I would have picked up "++" and "--" as special tokens even if > increment/decrement ops weren't supported. Just because they would > likely cause errors through misunderstanding.)
There's precedent for not doing this in C itself - even though "=+" (from very early versions of C, also =-, =*, =&) no longer acts as an add-in-place operator, it's not recognized as a special token to prevent errors either. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list