
Permalink for comment 548955
RE[3]: Good article
by galvanash on Wed 16th Jan 2013 02:54 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Good article"
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I had a computer programming teacher that used to prefer:

a = a + 1;



in the name of readibility!!!

If it is purely a readability argument, I see no reason to not use the increment operator, as long as it is alone or just being used in a loop construct. Throwing it into an array index or dropping it into a computation is confusing and dangerous.

Your teacher may have just been trying to avoid having to deal with explaining prefix vs postfix increment, how they evaluate, and all the confusion that usually leads to with a newish programmer. Sometimes teachers do things that seem silly and pointless when your still green around the ears but 20 years later you go "yeah, I get it now"...

Edited 2013-01-16 02:56 UTC

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