counter++ versus "add 1 to counter"

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Hi,

 > Baffled by this discussion.

from my side: ended anyway.

> Am I missing something obvious here? 

That may be because you did not follow it. The starting point was "this" 
is easier to understand than "that", the starting point was a comparism 
of two different ways to solve a problem.
So: Yes, you have been missing something obvious, which has been 
explained during the discussion ;-))

Marc Albrecht
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