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From: zougas@me.utoronto.ca ("Athanasios(Tom) Zougas")
Subject: Re: a style question
Message-ID: <90Oct1.101609edt.18868@me.utoronto.ca>
Organisation: U of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Organization: Mechanical Engineering, U of Toronto
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Date: 1 Oct 90 14:16:24 GMT

john@IASTATE.EDU (Hascall John Paul) writes:

>    What is the generally preferred usage?  Or does it matter at all?

>        ++x;   or   x++;

>    I find myself using ++x (which in my mind I attribute to some long gone,
>  brain-damaged optimizer from my past -- but I still persist).  My `favorite'
>  is:

>        --x;   and   x++;         (pre-decrement, post-increment!!!)

I prefer using ++x (or --x) to represent the fact that I'm _operating_ on 'x'.
And it makes sense to have unary operators lead their operands. N'est pas?

Tom.

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