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From: stevewi@hpspdra.HP.COM (Steve Witten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Pascal deficiency?
Message-ID: <13650001@hpspdra.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Dec 90 19:03:58 GMT
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You can use the 'succ' and 'pred' operators/functions in Pascal to
accomplish the same function as '++' and '--'.  So:

	integer i,j,k;

	   ...

	j := succ(i);  { same as 'j=i++' }
	k := pred(i);  { same as 'k=i--' }

	   ...

However, you have to remember that '++/--' are positional as well.
You cannot recreate this behavior.  You also cannot recreate the
behavior of 'x++' without an assignment in Pascal.

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