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Result of increment or decrement used

Reports an increment (++) or decrement (--) expression where the result of the assignment is used in a containing expression. Such assignments can result in confusion due to the order of operations, as evaluation of the assignment may affect the outer expression in unexpected ways. Example: var a = b++

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

IncrementDecrementResultUsedJS
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | JavaScript and TypeScript | Potentially confusing code constructs

Inspection ID: IncrementDecrementResultUsedJS

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection IncrementDecrementResultUsedJS

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025