Preincrement and Predecrement

[mkristien]

This seems unnecessarily. Do we ever use complex iterators? I would just stick with i++ or let people use whatever.

[neilweidinger]

I agree too, using postincrement everywhere is probably the best way to go for the sake of consistency and readability, but if there's a decent reason to use preincrement that's fine as well.

[brano2]

What about the efficiency? ++i is more efficient in for-loops. Or does the compiler optimise i++ in that case so that it doesn't matter? Are we using an appropriate level of compiler optimisation for this to happen?