3Re: $a++ allowed by $a-- is not ! why?

"the autoincrement operator was given its special magic so that the range operator can construct things like A..Z"

This makes so much more sense. :) By the way, working around the lack of -- magic isn't so easy, but working around the .. limitation is, if you can spare the memory overhead for large lists:

print for reverse 1..99;
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L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

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