Sven Barth wrote:
If only I'm the core dev, I would mark the C operator feature as
deprecated
and remove it in the next major version.
[Note: No personal attack intended with the next sentence] In that case
I think we are lucky that you aren't a core dev :P
We value backwards compatiblity very high and this is part of it, no
matter whether these c-like operators are considered good or bad...
What is it about Pascal programmers and their assumption that verbosity
is a prerequisite to clarity?
Elsewhere, I see an otherwise-sensible Delphi programmer enthusing about
LiveCode which appears to be some species of Visual COBOL. Sometimes I
wonder whether I'm on the right planet.
I, for one, see absolutely nothing wrong with += etc. since it's an
unambiguous idiom which came into use decades ago and is now almost
universally understood. Things like ptr++ or Inc(ptr) are far more
pernicious.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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