On 2009-11-09, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@[...].com>  wrote:
>  But they don't, and I find I can live with that, and I certainly have
>  been much happier with Ruby even without a++ or ++a than I ever was in
>  C/C++, and I am, or at least was, competent enough in C to do things
>  like writing compilers in it, and reading and understanding the Ruby
>  source code etc.

I'd rather use Ruby without those features than C++ with them.  (Not quite
so sure about C, but certainly there's plenty of things for which I'd rather
use Ruby than C.)  But on the other hand, I really do like the syntactic
sugar.

My favorite syntactic sugar ever was Icon's swap operator.  Sure, you don't
need it often, but it sure is nice to be able to express it so clearly.

-s
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