On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 04:06:01PM -0500, Brett W. McCoy wrote: > "The autodecrement operator, however, is not magical, and we have no plans > to make it so". Of course, no reason is given as to why... :-)
I believe the biggest reason is that the correct behaviour in edge cases can't be decided. What do you decrement 'a' to? The behaviour has been discussed several times but no satisfactory conclusion, other than simply not providing magic decrement, has been reached. I believe this http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-06/msg00100.html sparked the most recent discussion on the topic. Michael -- Administrator www.shoebox.net Programmer, System Administrator www.gallanttech.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
