C
Chris Riesbeck
Since I see postincrement a lot more than I see preincrement and since
i++ is idiomatic in that construct, when seeing ++i I tend to stop and
wonder whether the writer intended something else. So I suppose it might
matter if engendering a sense of distrust or unease in maintenance
programmers matters.
Makes no difference in this context for C and Java. In C++, an
overloaded postfix ++ for a user data structure typically has to create
and return a temporary, so modern C++ guides often recommend getting
into the ++i habit, and using i++ only when you really need it. But no
recommendation to rename the language to ++C yet.