Andrew Barnert writes: > I’m not sure this example really argues the case. > > To an experienced C programmer, both += and ++ are intuitive. But > to a novice who’s never programmed, neither one is intuitive.
I'm sorry, I expressed my point poorly, which is, first, that IMHO your statement above is exactly right. In addition, I meant to argue that "+=" got in because as an assignment statement it is useful to express mutation in place, while "++" had no such use. It's an argument which is similar in form but along a different dimension from the one you emphasize. Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/TOW7Q3IYUAA2HKOXP6GBI5NBIUWSKEAS/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
