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		Tempest1981 on Dec 2, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let’s Stop Bashing C Here are some reasons that Python removed them: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1485841/behaviour-of-incr... Edit: a nice write up by Chris Lattner: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...

dap on Dec 2, 2016 [–]

It's very unfortunate that attempting to use preincrement and postincrement operators in Python results not in a syntax error, but in code that silently does something very unexpected.

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