incrementation operators?

[Colin J. Williams]

Thomas,

Apologies for entering this so late in the game.

The PEP gives a full description of the various operators, but provides no rationale
for their introduction.

I wonder how frequently this sort of operation in place would be used in practice.
Does the frequency of likely use balance the increased clutter?  One of the
attractive features of Python is its relative simplicity.  Would we lose some of
this simplicity for little practical gain?

These operators exist in other languages.  Is there a justification for including
them in Python?

I hope that I am not too late for some sober second thoughts.

Colin W.

Thomas Wouters wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:29:23PM +0300, Moshe Zadka wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Alex Martelli wrote:
>
> > > "CHRIS" <unk at unk.ororr> wrote in message news:399659A1.477A4A85 at unk.ororr...
> > > > Are there any incrementation or decrementation operators in Python?
>
> > > Not yet, but they're scheduled to be in the forthcoming Python 2.0.
>
> > Just to clear up the issues here: += and ilk are scheduled for Python 2.0.
> > ++ and -- are not scheduled for any future release, and probably don't
> > belong in Python at all.
>
> Indeed. And if you want to test the augmented assignment operators
> (+=/-=/etc that is, not ++/--) give the patch on SourceForge a try:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/patch?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100699&group_id=5470
>
> and/or provide feedback on the PEP on this subject:
>
> http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0203.html
>
> Now is the last chance to provide any useful feedback, 2.0 is going in a
> feature freeze on Monday!
>
> --
> Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>
>
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