From ccfbbdb2c6c3f65765b6e92ed02eb5055945658f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Schmenk Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 12:45:44 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Increment and decrement --- doc/User Manual.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/User Manual.md b/doc/User Manual.md index 83ee53f..c8544a6 100644 --- a/doc/User Manual.md +++ b/doc/User Manual.md @@ -497,6 +497,18 @@ Address operators can work on any value, i.e. anything can be an address. Parent | || | logical OR (alt) | && | logical AND (alt) +#### Increment and Decrement +PLASMA has an increment and decrement statement. This is different than the increment and decrement operations in languages like C and Java. Instead, they cannot be part of an expression and only exist as a statement as postfix: + +``` +byte i + +i = 0 +while i < 100 + i++ +loop +``` + ### Statements PLASMA definitions are a list of statements the carry out the algorithm. Statements are generally assignment or control flow in nature. Generally there is one statement per line. The ';' symbol seperates multiple statements on a single line. It is considered bad form to have multiple statements per line unless they are very short.