Increment / Decrement Operator Behavior

[bearophile]

Jonathan M Davis:

> If they don't bother to learn, then they're going to get 
> bitten, and that's life.

A modern language must try to avoid common programmer mistakes, 
where possible (like in this case).


> As for treating pre or post-increment operators specially in 
> some manner, that
> doesn't make sense. The problem is far more general than that. 
> If we're going
> to change anything, it would be to make it so that the language 
> itself defines
> the order of evaluation of function arguments as being 
> left-to-right.

Probably I have expressed myself badly there, sorry. I'd like to 
see function calls fixed as Walter has stated.
And regarding pre/post de/increment operators, I find them handy, 
but I have seen _so much_ C/C++ code that abuses them that maybe 
I'd like them to return void, as in Go.

Bye,
bearophile