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> Well, I like the idea of an increment operation, and my reasoning has
> nothing to do with typing.  The problem is code duplication: you have to
> write "I" twice in "I := I + 1;".  No big deal if it's just "I", but it
> could be a complicated name, so the reader has to careful compare the
> text, and also worry about whether the name has side effects.

What kind of entity is able to have side-effects AND to be incremented?