Which, btw., is written in Lisp as: (incf vx (* ax deltat)) The equivalent of +=... | Hacker News

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		_19qg on Dec 7, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Love Julia Which, btw., is written in Lisp as: `(incf vx (* ax deltat))` The equivalent of += is INCF.

ElectronCharge on Dec 9, 2014 [–]

I'm not sure that syntax was available in Lush. The line I cited was from a Lush example program.

http://lush.sourceforge.net/lander04.txt

_19qg on Dec 10, 2014 | [–]

In Lush a similar construct is called INCR. See its documentation. INCF in Common Lisp might be more general, since it supports a concept called place.

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