Will decrement should be the opposite or increment, but Jimmy's comment made me laugh! so upvoted. - Victor Farazdagi (2) We call this dinc for double-increment, though we recently upgraded to oinc for octo-increment. - technomancy (3) @NickBedford: C++ already has that feature, e.g. for iterators: it++++ will legally advance by 2. - sehe 25