A Bug By Any Other Name ...

[Daniel Fetchinson]

> (snip)
>> and my point is that users
>> are most of time correct when they assume that something will work the
>> same way as in C.
>
> Oh, really ? They would surely be wrong if they'd expect the for loop to
> have any similarity with a C for loop, or - a *very* common error - if
> they'd expect assignment to work the same way as in C.

Yes, really. I wrote ".... most of the time ....." and not "all the time".

>> So I'd think that putting a warning in a FAQ or a Python Gotchas list
>> about ++n would be very useful for many users.
>
> Might eventually be useful, but I can't hardly recall of more than a
> couple threads on this topic in 8+ years.

I'm happy we agree.

Cheers,
Daniel

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