Bitten by my C/Java experience

[BartC]

On 04/05/2015 16:20, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> Potential dangerous bug introduced by programming in Python as if it
> was C/Java. :-(
> I used:
>      ++tries
> that has to be:
>      tries += 1

I think I've come across that. It doesn't mind ++ so people are likely 
to be assume that increment works as in other languages.

I guess it just means +(+(a)).

But in that case, what meaning does:

a

or

a+b

have in Python? If they were function calls: a() or (a+b)(), then that's 
clear enough. But a+b doesn't do anything!

(I think I would have picked up "++" and "--" as special tokens even if 
increment/decrement ops weren't supported. Just because they would 
likely cause errors through misunderstanding.)

-- 
Bartc