On my CS lectures algorithms professor used this pseudo language when writing an algorithm on a whiteboard :
I <- I++
On the next hour another professor was giving lecture on C++ programming. I asked him the question: what would happen if we compiled i = i++
He went into some deep elaboration on it, but reassumed that only idiot would write like this...
Out of curiosity, I checked if gcc would optimize i = i++ out, and it does!