One of the tips for jslint tool is:
++and--
The++(increment) and--(decrement)
operators have been known to contribute to bad code by
encouraging excessive trickiness. They
are second only to faulty architecture
in enabling to viruses and other
security menaces. There is a plusplus
option that prohibits the use of these
operators.
I know that PHP constructs like $foo[$bar++] may easily result in off-by-one errors, but I couldn’t figure out a better way to control the loop than a:
while( a < 10 ) do { /* foo */ a++; }
or
for (var i=0; i<10; i++) { /* foo */ }
Is the jslint highlighting them because there are some similar languages that lack the “++” and “--” syntax or handle it differently, or are there other rationales for avoiding “++” and “--” that I might be missing?