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[Joshua Herman]

Prefix usage is better to use because postfix uses requires you to
create a copy of the variable while prefix usage is much faster and
doesn't require the copy I believe.


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On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:02 PM, David Rock <david at graniteweb.com> wrote:
> * Martin Maney <maney at two14.net> [2011-10-15 21:25]:
>> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 04:06:02PM -0500, Joshua Herman wrote:
>> > On Oct 15, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Eric Stein wrote:
>> > > P.S. Does the lack of increment and decrement operators in Python bug
>> > > anyone else?
>>
>> > Yea, it annoys me too...
>>
>> My knee-jerk was "yeah, me too", but then I stopped and tried to
>> remember the last time I wanted to use any of them in Python code, and
>> I couldn't.  All the examples I came up with seemed to me to be
>> unpythonic - writing a loop that should be for range(something) the
>> hard way or some such.  I dimly recall doing stuff like that a decade
>> ago when I first started dabbling in Python, coming from a largely C
>> background.  Now, well, as I say, I can think of places they could be
>> used, but I get those loops by downcoding into C-in-Python.  -1.
>
> I don't find it particularly annoying, much for similar reasons.  In the
> grand scheme of things, I don't think the language is crippled without
> it.
>
> On another related discussion, though; what about the difference between
> pre or post fix usage(eg, --var vs var--)?  I expect most of us have
> dealt with this before, but I rarely recall seeing prefix usage.  My
> experience had primarily been postfix use.  Would your views on missing
> it change in this case, or not?  For me, I still don't miss it.
>
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