A Bug By Any Other Name ...

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <4a538a71$0$30236$9b4e6d93 at newsspool1.arcor-online.net>, Stefan 
Behnel wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> I wonder how many people have been tripped up by the fact that
>> 
>>     ++n
>> 
>> and
>> 
>>     --n
>> 
>> fail silently for numeric-valued n.
> 
> I doubt that there are many. Plus, you misspelled them from the more
> obvious
> 
> n++
> 
> and
> 
> n--
> 
> which *do* fail with a SyntaxError.

Funny, you accuse me of "misspelling", when it's _your_ version that fails 
with errors!