Re: [Gretl-devel] increment and decrement operators

Hello all + season's greetings Up till now gretl has supported only very limited usage of the increment (++) and deccrement (--) operators. The only acceptable usage has been in stand-alone expressions (e.g.) j++ # shorthand for j = j + 1 j-- # shorthand for j = j - 1 for "j" the name of a user-defined scalar variable. As of today's CVS I'm experimenting with fuller support for something that is really quite handy in C and similar languages, namely the ability to embed constructs such as "j++" and "j--" in more or less arbitrary contexts. For example: k = j++ # k = current value of j; then increment j m[j++] = x # assign x to element j of m; increment j x = foo(j--) # evaluate foo(j); decrement j