dbl... / wobblini.net wrote:
> Even when it's 2007++ integers will still be immutable, immediate
> values :-)  I much prefer having people have to learn that that's how
> Ruby integers are.

To be fair, that's a perfectly reasonable argument if ++ were to be a
method call. If it's to be programmer convenience for x += 1 (syntax
sugar for x=x+1) however, it could also be implemented as syntax sugar.

I'm personally perfectly happy without ++, but there are certainly ways
that it *could* be added to Ruby without violating the immutable
objects.