This is so utterly wrong, and it's unbelievable that after so many years, people keep iterating the wrong myths.

Please do provide a pointer to the documentation that garantees things will happen this way. All $i ++ is saying that $i will be incremented after the value is returned. But it is nowhere specified that $i will be incremented before or after an assignment. Its behaviour is UNDEFINED.

(And if you consider this a flame, please take your question to comp.lang.c (before you say "Perl isn't C", look up the discussion of ++ in perlop. It says that it works as in C) and really learn what being flamed is.)

Abigail

In reply to Re: Incrementing a Hash Value by Abigail-II
in thread Incrementing a Hash Value by arunhorne

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