I figured it would print 2, 1, 0, and was right, yay for me I guess. However my confidence was low. I agree that you can write confusing code with ++, but that

I figured it would print 2, 1, 0, and was right, yay for me I guess. However my confidence was low. I agree that you can write confusing code with ++, but that doesn't mean it should be banned! (Like they did with Swift). The ++ operators still are very useful. Also there are arguments that they're more correct than +=1 operations. I see ++ as meaning, "go to the next thing." For example, the following operation sort of doesn't make sense: char c = f(); c += 1; Why are we adding an integer to a char? If you really wanted to be type safe, it should be c += '\001'; So you're adding a char to a char. Same goes with pointers. They're memory addresses... but what happens of you add 1 to a memory address? Should you get the address plus one, or should you step over to the next object?