[CSI] for post statement

[Mikhail Nesterenko]

in the for-loop, there is no difference either syntactical or
semantical whether prefix or suffix form of the increment is
used. That is,

      for(int i=0; i < 20; ++i) ...

and
      for(int i=0; i < 20; i++) ...

are equivalent.

However, with more complicated types (to be studied in CSIB) the
suffix form is less efficient. So it is considered good style to avoid
using the suffix form.

Thanks,
--
Mikhail


> is there a syntactic reason why the post statement, in a for statement, has
> a convention of incrementing the loop variable with the suffix form?
> 
> If it doesn't matter which form you use(which i remember you saying in
> class) it would stand to reason that the convention would be to use the
> prefix form since its stylistically preferably.