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From: kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl)
Date: 27 Sep 2004 07:35:49 -0700
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Matthew Heaney <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<umzzdt0p6.fsf@earthlink.net>...
> kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline) writes:
> 
> > Well, if C++ had no operator++ it would be easy enough to write:
> >     template <class T> T preincrement(T& value)
> >     {
> >        value = value + 1;
> >        return value;
> >     }
> 
> Shouldn't preincrement return T&, not T?

Yes, it should.