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[grsbanks]

I'd really like to see post/pre-incrementation and decrementation in HP-PPL (as in many other languages). It makes for more concise code and I bet it would run faster too.

So, instead of something like this:

Code:

variable := variable + 1;

  -- or --

variable := variable - 1;

You'd have:

Code:

variable++;

  -- or --

variable--;

This makes a lot of sense in loops as well. For example:

Code:

EXPORT whatever()
BEGIN
  LOCAL n := 10;
  WHILE n > 1 DO
    n := n - 1;
    DoSomethingWith(n);
  END;
END;

would become:

Code:

EXPORT whatever()
BEGIN
  LOCAL n := 10;
  WHILE --n DO DoSomethingWith(n); END;
END;