Increment/Decrement Operators can increase costs

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Increment/Decrement Operators can increase costs

This code insight searches all the artifacts having increment/decrement operators. 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

For performance reasons, it is preferable to avoid incrementer/decrement operators. 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.
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