Bitten by my C/Java experience

[random832 at fastmail.us]

On Mon, May 4, 2015, at 18:02, BartC wrote:
> (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.)

There's precedent for not doing this in C itself - even though "=+"
(from very early versions of C, also =-, =*, =&) no longer acts as an
add-in-place operator, it's not recognized as a special token to prevent
errors either.