The Noncrement Operator

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The image shows a small rounded rectangular sticker or card on fabric, filled with a soft purple-to-teal gradient. In large white symbols it displays the code-like expression "++i--;" with a semicolon at the end. The sibling metadata caption asks, "What would you call this operation? (Wrong answers only)" and suggests joke answers like "noncrement," "Ex-crement," and "Less-crement." The humor comes from combining prefix increment and postfix decrement syntax into an absurd C-family operator expression that looks meaningful but invites compiler and readability complaints.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick It is both pre- and post-regret: the compiler rejects it before code review gets the chance.

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It is both pre- and post-regret: the compiler rejects it before code review gets the chance.
@Eugene1319 5y

экскремент, yeah
1. @mrybs1 5y
  
  translate excrement
@alueit 5y

Bipolar-crement
@yarmoliq 5y

Crement
@germanmetall 5y

unconfidencremention
@feskow 5y

the pythonist's nightmare
@funivandev 5y

diversifier
@RiedleroD 5y

numeric ensurer (ensures that a variable is numeric, and if not, casts it to a numeric value)
1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y
  
  Also using it in a statement makes the number be 1 bigger and after its read out it will restore it
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  bug report last seen: 24.11.2012
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y
  
  😂😂😂😂
  
  @prirai 5y
  
  Why does your username look like a public GPG key?
  
  @sylfn 5y
  
  looks like simple password
@chekoopa 5y

peacock operator
@esraghu 5y

Use this when you have to write a statement without necessarily doing anything 😎
@degreeby 5y

Heisenberg-operator
@sashakity 5y

I'd call it i + 1
@artur_odesa 5y

Thread-unsafe NOPcrement
@coconut_walter 5y

Remaincrement
@K3pp1 5y

Placebo
@Araalith 5y

fapcrement
@ItsTheShrimp 5y

incrementde
@MrZarei 5y

what's the difference with just I then?
@junkie_style 5y

Fakerement
Deleted Account 5y

Crementcrement
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

ReadIndexAsCountEment
@fortrest 5y

incremen't
@a_desant 5y

SegmentationFaultCrement
@luckynikua 5y

Wrong only? Is there a right one?
1. @sylfn 5y
  
  right one: syntax error
@azizhakberdiev 5y

Reincremention
@azizhakberdiev 5y

Preinpostdecremention
@azizhakberdiev 5y

Incrementionbeforedecremention
@azizhakberdiev 5y

Preincrementopostdecremention?
@azizhakberdiev 5y

Surprisesuspiciouscremention
@SamsonovAnton 5y

WannaBeOneMore? WhatIfItWasBigger? WhatWouldTheNextNumberLookLike?
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

Literally 99% of the commentors don't know that this is not doing nothing... int i = 1; print(i); print(++i--); print(i); Output: 1 2 1
1. @azizhakberdiev 5y
  
  I told Preincrementopostdecremention
2. @BotMike 5y
  
  > Wrong answers only
@qtsmolcat 5y

Bicrement
@BotMike 5y

nop
@a742883 5y

Trans non-binary addition
@pace_e_calma 5y

C(r/l)ement Michailescu
@azizhakberdiev 5y

Jackfrescrement
@zherud 5y

Its a mysterious way to write i+1. It's very good because it adds a veil of mystery to your code so noone can read it
@sylfn 5y

i think it is untranslatable, but idk Please use English as main language in this chat --- translate your message or mark as untranslatable
1. @mxkrsv 5y
  
  Cuffcrement
@BoxCollider2D 3y

plusplusiminusminussemicolumn
@callofvoid0 3y

++i--; side view of a person driving an army jeep without wheels
@ColonelPhantom 3y

That's just i+1 but harder to read
1. @callofvoid0 3y
  
  nope the -- cancels it out
  
  @ColonelPhantom 3y
  
  The -- cancels it out AFTER returning the incremented value
@im_ali_pj 3y

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The Noncrement Operator

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