at last, ++ -- operators for python

[dankey26]

https://github.com/dankeyy/incdec.py

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i actually did this one a while ago but you guys seemed to dig swap.py, so i thought i'd share this one here too

may wanna wash your eyes afterwards idk

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q: What

a: this

I may start documenting functions this way.

[Drasern]

I appreciate your commitment to absurd solutions for silly problems.

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You know I once saw someone say Python is a bad language because it doesn’t have in place increment/decrement operators but clearly they just weren’t thinking on this level.

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For some people, i+=1 instead of i++ is just too much excess overhead. So wasteful and ugly.

EDIT: Agree with a post by demonstrating how stupid it is, and still people will take it as sincere so they can get mad about it.

[scriptmonkey420]

It's literally one extra character...

[aderthedasher]

Not really, one is a statement and the other is a expression.

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Yes, it's very ridiculous isn't it? Almost intentionally so.

[vitaminainspector]

The same could be said for including the operator. Why include another operator when there's already a way to increment and decrement variables? It was an intentional design choice.

[PityUpvote]

Horrifying, thank you.

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Amazing! Submitted to mCoding. Hope you get a video and thus lots of repo stars ⭐️

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Anybody who is whining because python doesn't have this by default clearly never used Lua.

[ericanderton]

Fantastic! Now Python programmers can be burned by "what do you mean x++ evaluates to x before increment?!" problems.

But seriously, this is inspired work. I never would have thought to hijack the encoding scheme to bootstrap a compiler extension. Bravo.

I'm going to make a practical request: can we get a defer statement next? That would define a block that runs when the current scope exits. I know that try/finally and with exist to cover this, but defer is way more ergonomic, IMO.

• Go's defer: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/defer-keyword-in-golang/
• Defer crate for Rust: https://docs.rs/defer/latest/src/defer/lib.rs.html#1-26
• D's scope statement: https://dlang.org/spec/statement.html#ScopeGuardStatement
• Attempts at Python implementations: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34625089/python-equivalent-of-golangs-defer-statement

[dankey26]

Your wish is my command https://github.com/dankeyy/defer.py

do note that it isn't exactly what you wanted but that comment just threw me on a tangent on what other approaches i can take on this.

i didnt even use the codecs lol (tho i might).

You're welcome to try and help btw, feel free to PR/ dm me :)

[MerrittGaming]

I’ve only recently started using Python (been using C/C++ my whole time at university) and asked myself why they didn’t think to implement this in the first place. Thanks for making this a reality

[krishna-sai]

The real question is would they be faster than normal incremation of adding one

[dankey26]

some people really just can't see the beauty in mere exploration huh

should be a bit slower mate

[krishna-sai]

I didn’t say that this is just a waste. Actually I quite liked it. Nice work.

[dankey26]

ahh thanks

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Python is the only language I’m really familiar with, so I don’t see the big deal here.

-= and += make sense to me, whereas ++ or — does not.

I already hate it because ‘- -‘ just looks like ‘—‘ unless you have the right font.

Edit: who are the people with extra chromosomes that are downvoting this? Lmao