[issue12188] PEP 7, C style: add ++ policy and explanation

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > If there are a few of these idioms, I'm not against adding a new > section to PEP 7 (something like the "Programming Recommendations" > section in the PEP 8). It's just not worth doing it for the "*p++ = > x;" idiom alone IMHO. If these are recommandations,

[issue12188] PEP 7, C style: add ++ policy and explanation

Ezio Melotti added the comment: If there are a few of these idioms, I'm not against adding a new section to PEP 7 (something like the "Programming Recommendations" section in the PEP 8). It's just not worth doing it for the "*p++ = x;" idiom alone IMHO. -- _

[issue12188] PEP 7, C style: add ++ policy and explanation

Eric V. Smith added the comment: But don't you think we should put information like this somewhere, even if it's not in PEP 7? We've had a discussion about this particular issue (idiomatic pointer increments when appending to a buffer) at least twice, and there's also the recent "if (const ==

[issue12188] PEP 7, C style: add ++ policy and explanation

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Indeed, I don't think that's appropriate. Also, it's not about ++ in general but a particular use of it. -- nosy: +gvanrossum, pitrou resolution: -> rejected status: open -> pending type: -> feature request ___ Py

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Ezio Melotti added the comment: I'm not sure it's worth adding this to the PEP 7. The PEP is about conventions and style not idioms. PEP 8 has a section about "Programming Recommendations" that contains a few idioms, but since PEP 7 doesn't have an equivalent section, I think that explaining

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New submission from Terry J. Reedy : In response to a discussion of a patch removing 'useless' post-increments, (which issue has apparently come up before) Guido posted "> Sorry to butt in here, but I agree with Eric that it was better > before. There is a common idiom, *pointer++ =, and > whene