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Syntax Coloring for “Possible Unwanted Assignment” Issue

Apparently Mathematica's syntax coloring engine believes that the second assignment in the following code excerpt (concocted for illustration purposes only) is a "Possible Unwanted Assignment" since ...
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Why does ++++x return an increment of 2 when the value of x is only incremented by 1?

This line returns 3: x = 1; ++++x However, the value of x after the increment is only ...
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Differentiation w/o assiging concrete values

v = Subscript[v, 0]*Sin[(Pi*S)/Subscript[S, 0]]; a = dv/ds v; a = D[v, s] returns ...