alt Hacker NewsI also started doing this. I feel that "b = expr(a); a++;" expresses what I mean better than "b = expr(a++)": store expr(a) in b, then store a+1 in a. Any good compiler will optimize the same.
After separating a++ onto its own line, replacing a++ with a+=1 or a=a+1 comes down to personal taste in syntax sugar. I vote for a+=1.
Yeah exactly, especially for newer people.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone read `b = expr(a++)` to indicate that `a` is incremented, and then passed into `expr`, especially considering that it is within parentheses. The fact that it does it after passing it in is weird, and not obvious, at least not in my opinion. In my mind, there's no reason not to do what you suggested, or do the increment of `a` on the line before if you want the prefix.