Swift 2.2 formally deprecates the ++
and --
operators, which means they still work but you'll get a warning when you use them. Deprecation is usually a first step towards removing something entirely, and in this case both of these operators will be removed in Swift 3.0.
In their place, you need to use += 1
and -= 1
instead. These operators have been there all along, and are not going away.
You might wonder why two long-standing operators are being removed, particularly when they exist in C, C#, Java, and – critically to its "joke" – C++. There are several answers, not least:
++
rather than += 1
is hardly a dramatic time saving++
doesn't have an obvious meaning to people learning Swift, whereas +=
at least reads as "add and assign."++
and --
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