golang - Why ++ and — not work in expressions?

Question

What we take for granted in other languages and almost expect it to work in go, won\'t work - its almost so natural to do this, so why isn\'t the compiler happy? Just feeling li

Answer 1

Specifically, ++ and -- are statements because it can be very difficult to understand the order of evaluation when they're in an expression.

Consider the following:

// This is not valid Go!
x := 1
x = x++ + x
y := 1
y = ++y + y

What would you expect x to be? What would you expect y to be? By contrast, the order of evaluation is very clear when this is a statement.