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As @AndrewBuntine said, this operator seems to originate from the world of C, or maybe even assembly language before that. I am not a big fan of it for general-purpose programming, and probably I would be inclined to suggest
counter += 1as a better idiom thancounter++Nice article! This is thanks to C and has always been a gotcha in every language that implemented it.
Although, because of the semantic difference and the confusion it can cause, you will very rarely see auto-increment used inside other expressions in typical industry code - it would never pass a code review. You will see the postfix variant from time to time, but it's typically just run as a single statement on it's own line for the the side-effect (+ 1).
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@AndrewBuntine @nestedsoftware Thank you for the feedback. It's always interesting to hear how the topics I'm studying are used in the real world!