diff NEWS @ 30448:7ecd07721cca stable

doc: Increment and decrement operators must "hug" the variable they affect (bug #60882). * doc/interpreter/expr.txt: Document that no white spaces are allowed between increment and decrement operators and the variable they affect. * NEWS: Add note about this change.
author Markus Mützel <markus.muetzel@gmx.de>
date Tue, 07 Dec 2021 16:20:15 +0100
parents f3bf43b11a73
children 688742af38bf
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--- a/NEWS	Tue Dec 07 15:58:53 2021 +0100
+++ b/NEWS	Tue Dec 07 16:20:15 2021 +0100
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@
 same number of digits for each value such as
 `[0x00_00_01; 0x00_01_00; 0x01_00_00]`.
 
+- The increment and decrement operators `++` and `--` must "hug" their
+corresponding variables.  In previous versions of Octave, whitespaces
+between these operators and the variable they affect were allowed.  That
+is no longer the case.
+
 - The `mldivide` function (i.e., the `\` operator) now uses an LU
 decomposition to solve nearly singular full square matrices.  This is
 Matlab-compatible and yields results which more nearly minimize `norm