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From: "Erik Sigra" <freeciv@home.se>
To: xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Cc: j.ruehle@bmiag.de, xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFC: Increment and Decrement (was Re: GDL Notice: Arithmetic Operators / Quasi-Formulae)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 04:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1087925962.8a169840freeciv@home.se> (raw)
Message-ID: <20040623042100.FafJwayR8VzGaIcgT8G8a7ZEWKzPXhYqW2RUqJlkKfE@z> (raw)

> So, I guess the choices for increment and decrement
> are:
> (++ n) (-- n)
> (inc n) (dec n)
> (1+ n) (1- n)
>
> Does anyone have any preferences (aside from those
> already stated)?

I like (+ n 1) and (- n 1) most. It is general and also works with for example 2. It is almost as short to write and already implemented.

             reply	other threads:[~2004-06-22 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-22 17:43 Erik Sigra [this message]
2004-06-23  4:21 ` Erik Sigra
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-21  6:50 GDL Notice: Arithmetic Operators / Quasi-Formulae Eric McDonald
2004-06-22  3:25 ` Eric McDonald
2004-06-22  6:19   ` Jim Kingdon
2004-06-22  9:50     ` Juergen Ruehle
2004-06-22 14:18       ` RFC: Increment and Decrement (was Re: GDL Notice: Arithmetic Operators / Quasi-Formulae) Eric McDonald
2004-06-22 14:50         ` Jim Kingdon
2004-06-23  6:02           ` Eric McDonald
2004-06-23  6:17             ` Jim Kingdon

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