in reply to Increment/Decrement Operator with Strings

because, according to to Programming Perl...

The autodecrement operator, however, is not magical.

I guess you'll have to roll your own. Sorry.

UPDATE:

wfsp, I skimmed past your answer thinking you'd just posted a link to the docs, and didn't even read the last line, thinking it was a signature.

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