>> That's a fair summary. I am also for supporting only a subset of what
>> is possible--if one really needs crazy stuff like differently
>> implemented prefix/postfix decrements and -> vs (*). one can code in C
>> ++ or use clever macros. (Would we need to expose ++, a.k.a
>> "__next__" for STL iterators?)
>
> Yes, you need ++/-- for std::list<T>::iterator, which doesn't accept any
> form of +=, but we can just compile += 1 and -= 1 to those operators in
> general (also for plain ints for that matter), so it's not really a
> problem. (We are then requiring that += 1 would have the same semantics,
> which I'm 100% fine with.) This holds for both my and your stance BTW
> and is orthogonal.
>

Could we define a function int() and dec() for that?

like, inc(iterator), dec(iterator).

Would this be possible?
And, of course, better?
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