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[–] mfz@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't the evaluated value different from the expression? i++ returns the value of i before increasing. i-=-1 would return the value after it has been increased. Wouldn't it be more correct to make it equal to ++i

[–] maiskanzler@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that's why post- and pre-increment is non-existant in Python and Rust. It's an easy source for bugs for a noncritical abbreviation🤷

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

They're especially also a source of bugs, because they encourage manually incrementing indices and manually accessing array positions, which is almost never actually sensible.