Marco Sulla <[email protected]> added the comment:
> This is not a bug
No one said it's a bug. It's a defect.
> This has been part of Python since version 1
There are many things that was part of Python 1 that was removed.
> `++` should never be an operator in the future, precisely because it already
> has a meaning today
This is not a "meaning". `++` means nothing. Indeed
>>> 1++
File "<stdin>", line 1
1++
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> The first expression is not "unreadable". The fact that you were able to read
> it and diagnose it [...]
The fact I understood it it's because I'm a programmer with more than 10 years
of experience, mainly in Python. And I discovered this defect by acccident,
because I wanted to write `a += b` and instead I wrote `a ++ b`. And when
happened, I didn't realized why it didn't raised a SyntaxError or, at least, a
SyntaxWarning. I had to take some minutes to realize the problem.
So, in my "humble" opinion, it's *highly* unreadable and surprising.
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