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fourthark
on March 28, 2020
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What If C++ Abandoned Backward Compatibility?
No, postfix increment returns an rvalue, so it can’t be applied twice. (jk)
rini17
on March 28, 2020
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Ah of course. So name it instead C+=2
fourthark
on March 29, 2020
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Looks like you could have (++C)++
fetbaffe
on March 30, 2020
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If the idea is to remove old & deprecated features from C++ that would be (C++)—-
fourthark
on March 30, 2020
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You can't do that because of the rvalue problem I mentioned above. Only (++C)-- and (--C)++ are allowed!
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