A Bug By Any Other Name ...

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand
Mon Jul 13 07:39:34 EDT 2009


In message <4a538a71$0$30236$9b4e6d93 at newsspool1.arcor-online.net>, Stefan 
Behnel wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> I wonder how many people have been tripped up by the fact that
>> 
>>     ++n
>> 
>> and
>> 
>>     --n
>> 
>> fail silently for numeric-valued n.
> 
> I doubt that there are many. Plus, you misspelled them from the more
> obvious
> 
> n++
> 
> and
> 
> n--
> 
> which *do* fail with a SyntaxError.

Funny, you accuse me of "misspelling", when it's _your_ version that fails 
with errors!




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