Increment/decrement statements

[jwfxpr]

GOOD ON YA as increment statement:

I RECKON x = 0;
GOOD ON YA x;
GIMME x;
// Output is 1

PULL YA HEAD IN as decrement statement:

I RECKON x = 1;
PULL YA HEAD IN x;
GIMME x;
// Output is 0

I would expect these to be pre-inc/decrements, where that's relevant

[zackradisic]

Loving the ideas!

1 question, do we want to make it a statement or an expression? If it's an expression we can put put them in other expressions which can open the door to some hilarious possibilities

I RECKON x = 1;
GIMME 420 + GOOD ON YA x;

[jwfxpr]

Yeah, great point, I think they work great as expressions 😂

I RECKON x = 10;
I RECKON y = PULL YA HEAD IN x;
GIMME x - y;

[jwfxpr]

As expressions, perhaps we can then distinguish properly between pre and post inc/decrement:

I RECKON x = 10;
GIMME x PULL YA HEAD IN;
// Prints 10, x now equals 9

[zackradisic]

That looks good to me, unless you wanted to add an additional keyword for pre/post

[jwfxpr]

Well 🤔 I'd say most people are already familiar with the more typical unaries, where ++x and x++ are pre- and post-increment respectively, so having the equivalent expressions be GOOD ON YA x and x GOOD ON YA makes sense to me.

However, since "making sense" isn't this projects highest priority, I'm obviously keen to hear any alternative ideas people have 😄

[jwfxpr]

Wanting to dig into this codebase has motivated me to (finally) start properly learning Rust, and doing so has led me to think that we should not include post-dec/increment in aussie++, for much the same reasons that inc/dec unaries are excluded from Rust (ref for curious readers: Rust FAQ).

Still really wanna see GOOD ON YA x and PULL YA HEAD IN x as unambiguous increment/decrement expressions equivalent to x += 1 and x -= 1 though 😁

[zackradisic]

@jwfxpr really excited about you learning Rust, it's a great language and I could definitely use some help! I should write an ARCHITECTURE.md or something of the sort to help ppl navigate the code 👍

As for the incr/decr expressions, keeping them in the prefix position sounds good to me.

[jwfxpr]

Yeah mate, drifting off topic here but... is there such a thing as a Rustgasm? Rust is what I didn't realise I needed in my life. It's like I didn't realise I had a headache my whole life until it just started going away.

I would definitely encourage at least a CONTRIBUTING.md, and considering the rate at which the repository is accumulating stars and forks, I think you can anticipate more contributions incoming. We can open a contributing issue if you want input on that stuff, but one thing that I think would be nice to see is the All Contributors spec, since you already have really valuable contributions that aren't coming from PRs. 😊

Now, one last back-on-topic note: Implementing this would mean that this language could correctly be referred to as GOOD ON YA AUSSIE, which... I mean... is obviously amazing 😂

[zackradisic]

Yeah I definitely felt the same way about Rust, I started an issue for contributing #21 and just added the All Contributors bot 👍

[zackradisic]

@jwfxpr GOOD ON YA and PULL YA HEAD IN are now added!