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 += 1 as a better idiom than counter++
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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++