On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 10:11:27 UTC, Casper Færgemand
wrote:
What exactly is the downside of i++? Suppose the compiler
doesn't lower it and I use the expression alone, what is the
potential damage?
AFAIK, there's no guarantee in C/C++ that i++ will be optimized
to ++i at all.
i++ requires a temporary, this can be trivially optimized away in
most cases but an overloaded post-increment can make this much
more difficult
an example is iterators in C++. Post increment requires you to
make a copy of the iterator, increment the current one, and
evaluate the copy. Pre-increment just requires you to increment
the iterator then evaluate it.(This might not even be true
anymore, compilers are pretty smart nowadays.)
In D, I don't think it matters that much as already discussed.
It's just good form, I believe.
