why no ++?
Courageous
jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Fri Aug 3 21:20:28 EDT 2001
>Just wondering. Can anyone tell me the rationale for leaving the ++/--
>operator out of...
In the early years of Python, and even to some extent today,
one of Python's characterizing features is Minimalism.
In any case, ++ in other languages is often abused to the point
of much confusion. The "i++;" case is only one of many.
Note that in language where you _can_ type i++, you're probably
also writing ';'. So Python's "i+=1" is equally terse.
C//
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