Add note about pre/post increment to the design FAQ. #23186
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| ## Why no `--x` or `x++`? | ||
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| Pre- and post- increment, while convenient, are also fairly complex. They |
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Pre- and post- increment
I'm not sure, but that space after "post-" looks wrong.
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yeah, I felt slightly awkward about it, but it felt more consistent. Maybe I should just re-word and write 'increment' twice
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| Pre- and post- increment, while convenient, are also fairly complex. They | ||
| require knowledge of evaluation order, and often lead to subtle bugs and | ||
| undefined behavior in C and C++. `x = x + 1` and `x = x - 1` is only slightly |
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I’d go for x += 1 and x -= 1 here, because they’re both shorter and their meaning looks, at least to me, closer to the increment and decrement ops.
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Fixes #14686