Re: CF -Specs (was: "x-Spec")

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Hall wrote:
>
>What do those unary operators do?
>

Confuse the logic, remove some of the self documenting features of code...

I honestly can't see what having counter++ adds to the language. Sure, it
saves a few keystrokes; sure, it makes you feel like yourd doing C; sure,
it shows you are in the know.

But, when you are trying to debug the code, or someon else is, its not
nearly so intuitive as to what it's actually doing.

To me it *implies* an add operation, rather then explicitly stating it,
seems to me this is *bad*

I'm a little bemused reading all this free format furore. I kinda like the
columnar format of RPG because I always know what to expect. Although it
may be a weakness, it is also one of the strengths because it imposes a
standard on everyone that writes the code as to where the various
operations and operators go.

Anyways.... back to reading it all

Cheers
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