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title: "increment-decrement"
description: "Prefer increment and decrement statements."
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# increment-decrement

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**Default severity:** `note`

Prefer increment and decrement statements.

## Bad

```go
count += 1
```

## Good

```go
count++
```

Source: https://strider.gempir.com/lints/increment-decrement/index.mdx