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Re: GDL Notice: Arithmetic Operators / Quasi-Formulae
Hi Jim,
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 00:19, Jim Kingdon wrote:
> I suppose
>
> (++ 5) => 6
This can be done and seems reasonable. Another nested test would have to
be hacked into the tokenizer, though.
> might be better, although of course it isn't like the C ++ because it
> just returns the incremented value, rather than assigning.
True. But, I think that after a C programmer, unfamiliar with Lisp, has
read that 'remove' and 'append' don't really assign anything either,
he/she is going to get the hint that assigning isn't the Lisp/GDL way
(aside from 'define' and 'set').
> (inc 5)
Also sounds reasonable. This would save us from any further tokenizer
hacking.
> Or of course going back to (+ 5 1) if all of these choices seem
> problematic.
Yeah, but the whole point was to try to make some shorthand notation for
increment and decrement.
Thanks for the feedback,
Eric