A Bug By Any Other Name ...

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Daniel Fetchinson a écrit :
(snip)
> and my point is that users
> are most of time correct when they assume that something will work the
> same way as in C.

Oh, really ? They would surely be wrong if they'd expect the for loop to 
have any similarity with a C for loop, or - a *very* common error - if 
they'd expect assignment to work the same way as in C.

> So I'd think that putting a warning in a FAQ or a Python Gotchas list
> about ++n would be very useful for many users.

Might eventually be useful, but I can't hardly recall of more than a 
couple threads on this topic in 8+ years.