2009/11/4 David A. Black <dblack / rubypal.com>:
> Hi --
>
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

>> I have seen no convincing argument as to why ++ is not supported in Ruby.
>
> It would, I think, be quite anomalous, since it would be the only case
> (that I can think of anyway) of an assignment expression that didn't
> look and feel like an assignment expression.
>
> I'm also not sure what problem it would be solving, other than adding
> to the "make <language> users feel at home in Ruby" effect. But I tend
> to think that Ruby should move away from, not towards, doing things
> for exclusively that reason.

+2 (Thanks for the well formulated reasoning, David!)

Kind regards

robert

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