Increment/Decrement Operators can increase costs
Increment and decrement operators
1) cannot be used in an arithmetic operation.
Ex of violation :
$id = –$i – $x;
2) must be bracketed when used in string concatenation.
Ex of violation :
$id = $id.’_’.$i++;
should be $id = $id.’_’.($i++);
3) should be used where possible.
Ex of violation :
$var = (1 – $var);
should be $var–;
Why you should care
This could be time and memory consuming. Try to reduce the number of artifacts having Increment/decrement operators.
Business Impacts
It is recommended to avoid these in order to ensure the code is more readable and cost effective.
CAST recommendations
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