newbie question
Cameron Laird
claird at lairds.us
Wed Feb 9 22:08:06 EST 2005
In article <seudnRY79e_AXJffRVn-pg at rogers.com>,
Dan Perl <danperl at mail-me.com> wrote:
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>has the conciseness of the C statement. The pre- and post-increment
>and -decrement in C/C++/Java are very powerful and I miss them in python.
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Me, too.
Which is, I suspect, evidence for the incompleteness of our Pythonhood.
As Peter Hansen already hinted in this thread, an appetite for the
increment and related operators probably is a symptom that there's an
opportunity nearby to use an iterator or string method or such. C++
and Java wish they had it so good.
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