Postfix/Prefix Operators (++,--)

[Jp Calderone]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:04:17PM +0000, Joshua Marshall wrote:
> Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> ...
> >> ++/-- can be added to Python, and could act in a way that wouldn't
> >> surprise C or Java programmers.  There really isn't any conceptual
> >> difference between references to immutabe ints and C/Java primitive
> >> ints.
> 
> > How would the error generated when the C or Java programmer wrote 
> > the following code not surprise him or her?
> 
> >   c = 1
> >   a = c++
> 
> I wouldn't design ++ to error in this case:
> 
>   >>> c = 1
>   >>> a = c++
>   >>> a
>   1
>   >>> c
>   2

  So name++ would be an -expression- that -rebinds- a name.

  Fantastic.  Just what Python needs.  More semantic garbage.

  --1--

  Jp

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