Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: Avoid useless "++" at the end of functions

2011-05-26 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2011/5/26 Terry Reedy : > On 5/26/2011 2:08 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> Sorry to butt in here, but I agree with Eric that it was better >> before. There is a common idiom, *pointer++ =, and >> whenever you see that you know that you are appending something to an >> output buffer. Perhaps the m

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: Avoid useless "++" at the end of functions

2011-05-26 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/26/2011 2:08 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: Sorry to butt in here, but I agree with Eric that it was better before. There is a common idiom, *pointer++ =, and whenever you see that you know that you are appending something to an output buffer. Perhaps the most important idea here is that this