I'd venture into guessing that the parent reason is that ++ and -- operators tend to make easy to bury side-effects where they're not obvious, like in the provi

I'd venture into guessing that the parent reason is that ++ and -- operators tend to make easy to bury side-effects where they're not obvious, like in the provided code sample: __raw[args[i++]] = 1; (C programmers would disagree about this, of course :) )