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On 1/11/2012 11:44 PM, Leif Roar Moldskred wrote:
> Lew<noone@lewscanon.com>  wrote:
>
>> Next you'll excoriate += as obscure.  Sheesh.
>
> Personally, I never use += and its brethren and I practically only use
> autoincrement and -decrement in for loops. Not because I find them
> obscure or hard to read, but because I find the long form either
> equally or just slightly easier to read, so why use two different
> syntactic constructs when a single one gets the job done just as well?
>

I regard a program both as communication from me to the compiler, and
from me to any programmer, myself included, who might read the program
in the future.

If my thought is "increment x", I prefer "++" because, of the available
ways of adding one to x, it most directly reflects my intent.

Patricia