Re:John Carmack on Mutable Variables
by xxs on Monday November 10, 2025 @04:27AM
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>Does it stress you to read ++i over i++?
Of course not, I do use both. Admittedly i++ is a lot more common in Java, and for loops i++ is the standard idiom. Not using the standard idiom usually implies less practice, e.g. str.indexOf('x') < 0 is the standard one, not == -1. Even the backwards iteration is a postfix subtraction::
for (int i = array.length; i-- > 0;) doStuff(array[i]);
Of course not, I do use both. Admittedly i++ is a lot more common in Java, and for loops i++ is the standard idiom. Not using the standard idiom usually implies less practice, e.g. str.indexOf('x') < 0 is the standard one, not == -1. Even the backwards iteration is a postfix subtraction::