A Bug By Any Other Name ...

[Chris Rebert]

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Lawrence
D'Oliveiro<ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> I wonder how many people have been tripped up by the fact that
>
>    ++n
>
> and
>
>    --n
>
> fail silently for numeric-valued n.

Given that C-style for-loops are relatively infrequent in Python and
are usually written using range() when they are needed, it's probably
not that prevalent a problem.
I suppose the lexer could be changed to make ++ and -- illegal...

Cheers,
Chris
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