The ++ operator is one of the main features that brought me to  C and C++ when I was just a kid.
Basic and Pascal didn&#x27;t have it and it looked so cool !
Then I had to learn the rest of the language which goes around the ++ operators, but I&#x27;m not kidding ==&gt; the ability to write code using ++ or -- was <i>the shit</i> back then.<p>To me, ++ is the signature operator of the C language AND the operator in the title of the compiler that Swift is written in: C++<p>I guess it wasn&#x27;t just me who liked it quite a bit ;).<p>After so many years I still see a bit of magic in this strange repetition of a character..<p>So I think they should definitely stay, even if (because) it&#x27;s not the most pragmatic thing to do.