How to Improve C/C++

Just let p++ to be *p++. Its value never used other than with dereferencing. You won't see q = p++ in practice.

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I can very well read the code and know what its semantics are. Readable code is instantly recognizable to have a single meaning. If you have to interpret the meaning because it's not instantly obvious at first glance, then that code is a source of bugs. These are the tricks that people use to introduce backdoors by intentionally causing buffer overruns and it's not a practice that the secure code industry recommend.