The ++ operator is one of the main features that brought me to C and C++ when I was just a kid. Basic and Pascal didn't have it and it looked so cool ! Then I

The ++ operator is one of the main features that brought me to C and C++ when I was just a kid. Basic and Pascal didn't have it and it looked so cool ! Then I had to learn the rest of the language which goes around the ++ operators, but I'm not kidding ==> the ability to write code using ++ or -- was the shit back then. To me, ++ is the signature operator of the C language AND the operator in the title of the compiler that Swift is written in: C++ I guess it wasn't just me who liked it quite a bit ;). After so many years I still see a bit of magic in this strange repetition of a character.. So I think they should definitely stay, even if (because) it's not the most pragmatic thing to do.