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Re: Increment and AddTo

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• Subject: [mg64637] Re: Increment and AddTo
• From: "Ray Koopman" <koopman at sfu.ca>
• Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:19:20 -0500 (EST)
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Sseziwa Mukasa wrote:
> [...]
> > Further:
> > i = 0;
> > v = {1, 2, 3};
> > ++v[[++i]] ;
> > v
> > i
> >
> > gives:
> > {1,2,3}
> > 2
> > Again i has been incremented by 2, but v has not been touched at all.

Both i and v change. i = the index of the changed term in v:

{i,v} = {0,{10,20,30}}; ++v[[++i]]; {i,v}

 gives  {2,{10,11,30}}

{i,v} = {1,{10,20,30}}; ++v[[++i]]; {i,v}

 gives  {3,{10,20,21}}

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    • From: dh <dh@metrohm.ch>