Yes, you actually have to read the statement `i += 1` in order to know what it does. I don&#x27;t see how that is an argument. It&#x27;s barely longer than `i++`, in any case.<p>I could buy the argument if we were dealing with indexes or numbers where you had to read&#x2F;hunt down occurrences of them to make sure they are what you expect. Like: make sure that a loop with a lot of indexes don&#x27;t overincrement (out of bounds) or does something else that is wrong. But in this case the space isn&#x27;t across a method, or a block. The space between the destination (i) and the increment number (1) is literally just 4 characters.