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[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Takes 1 more character, that's bloat.

[–] theory@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks, i hate it

[–] muxelplexer@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

this is incredibly cursed. i love it.

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I saw while(i --> 0) in someone else's code and thought wth is this --> operator? Then I realized it's while(i-- > 0) and thought cool, I gotta do this!

[–] 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.