Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!igor!rutabaga!jls From: jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Documenting OO Systems Message-ID: Date: 27 Mar 91 03:26:40 GMT References: <9103070342.AA07462@.nextserver.cs.stthomas.edu.cs.stthomas.edu ..> <1991Mar22.120946.1@happy.colorado.edu> <299@orbit.gtephx.UUCP> <1991Mar25.145441.1@happy.colorado.edu> Sender: news@Rational.COM Lines: 24 >So, is it simply convention that makes us prefer "a := a + 1" to "a++"? After >all, I never saw anything even vaguely like "a := a + 1" in any math or >science course, so I can't believe I had any prior familiarity with it. Huh? Did you never see?: 7 = 6 + 1 X = Y * Z T = Sin (X) W = W + 1 2 1 I saw stuff like that all the way from elementary school onwards. What I NEVER saw was: P++ -- ***** DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed herein are my own. Duh. Like you'd ever be able to find a company (or, for that matter, very many people) with opinions like mine. -- "When I want your opinion, I'll read it in your entrails."