Hi --

On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Seebs wrote:

> On 2009-11-06, David A. Black <dblack / rubypal.com> wrote:
>> It seems like a lot of special-casing and strangeness, though. I'm a
>> little bit hampered in discussing it, I guess, because I don't see
>> what benefit it would confer in exchange for the anomaly. So I'm
>> probably going in circles.
>
> I have found a lot of idioms which are amenable to use with ++, especially
> postincrement, but they are often not nearly so useful outside of the C-like
> languages.
>
> Consider the canonical inner loop for copying an array in C:
> 	s[i++] = t[j++];
>
> There's really no idiomatic equivalent -- nor a need for one, usually.

Oh, I have no problem with ++ per se. It just seems against the grain
in Ruby.


David

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