Opposite of increment-decrement (for non-loop-counter usage)
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
The increment-decrement rule is quite opinionated, as many rules are. However, its suggestion is problematic in the sense that e.g.
- it's not that common of a practice in my experience to use `++`/`--` in contexts other than loop counters in Go code, e.g. stdlib
- many programming languages don't even have those operators (for example Python, Rust, Swift, Zig)
**Describe the solution you'd like**
increment-decrement can be disabled like all others, no problem with that, and that does not require a solution.
But for the above reasons, a rule that would do the *opposite* of increment-decrement for anything but loop counters would be nice to have.
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
Just disabling increment-decrement, but that won't help with adoption of the `+= 1` style.
**Additional context**
N/A.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by locating the existing increment-decrement rule and reviewing its tests. Clarify which non-loop-counter uses should be reported while leaving loop-counter usage alone; finish with focused rule tests and the full Go test suite.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100