Restricting ++ and --
bearophile
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Sun Oct 25 04:36:00 PDT 2009
d-noob:
>That would break C compatibility and sounds ridiculous.<
It breaks C compatibility, but it doesn't assign a new meaning to a C syntax, it just disallows a syntax used in C, and this is allowed by D philosophy.
Many of the things I say sound ridiculous :-)
You may say it's not a handy change and you may refuse it, but I think it's not a ridiculous idea because those changes lead to code that's equal to how some expert coders suggest to program to avoid bugs, this is one of them, but I have seen two more:
http://users.bestweb.net/~ctips/tip037.html
So it's a language enforcement of a coding tip/standard.
Bye,
bearophile
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