Posted by TedVanGaalen on Apr 20, 2011; 8:18pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/again-tp3464038.html

Thanks Tobias and Igor for your thoughts about this increment/decrement theme.
@Tobias: what kind of side effect(s) are you talking about? I don't
understand, sorry.

@Igor, Yes, I completely agree with you that Smalltalk should not
transform to a C++ like dialect.  At first, I simply would like wanted
++ -- (monadic) and for that matter also += -=  *= and /=  (dyadic) as
messages for the Integer classes, possibly as primitive methods.

But then again, If this would be implemented, I can imagine people
using ugly and hard to read statement trains like
anotherInt += anInt ++ * 1234 ,
I don't find these constructs very nice either.. So, after realizing
this.. perhaps you're right: just let it be.  (probably would have
needed here () as wel)
Greetings from Ravensburg area
TedvG