[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60941] Whitespace now causes parse error for postfix increment / decrement operators

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #60941 (project octave):

Should we mark this as Won't Fix?  Seems like we had to change the parser to
more closely support Matlab command syntax, and this isn't something we have
freedom on.

Also, although you could do it before, it's pretty bad from a
legibility-of-code perspective not to tie the increment/decrement operators to
the variable they are operating on.  Something like


a ++ b


could be interpreted as a postfix increment of variable 'a', a prefix
increment of variable 'b', or 'a' plus '+b'.

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