Nick Vargish <nav at adams.patriot.net> wrote in message news:<yyyznkpkbam.fsf at adams.patriot.net>... > Feeling somewhat outraged that someone would want to add ++foo to > Python. ++foo is already valid; it just happens to be a no-op ;-) (Unless, of course, __pos__ is defined as something other than "return self", but who would want to do that?)