Sometimes it's easier to define some vocabulary and then use it. Like defining push and pop on a stack vs stack[++ix] = blah and blah = stack[ix--]. And avoid

Sometimes it's easier to define some vocabulary and then use it. Like defining push and pop on a stack vs stack[++ix] = blah and blah = stack[ix--]. And avoids needing to think about it being prefix or postfix after you don't that one time. But at other times it's insufferable, when the abstraction is leaky and unintuitive.