A little disappointed so far
Joshua Marshall
joshway_without_spam at mathworks.com
Mon May 19 11:38:29 EDT 2003
Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> "Graham Nicholls" <graham at rockcons.co.uk> wrote in message
...
>> BTW, why no ++ operator?
> a) ints are not mutable. This gets to the difference between 'name
> denotes block of memory' (as in C, etc) and 'name denotes object' (as
> in Python, etc).
This doesn't matter - "++" dosen't need to affect the integer object.
It could be defined so that:
>>> x = 1
>>> y = x++
>>> x
2
>>> y
1
But I don't think it's a good idea. I personally dislike this feature
of C.
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