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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: difference between c++; and ++c;
Keywords: pre post increment decrement grammar style
Message-ID: <15767@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 8 Apr 91 21:29:15 GMT
References: <1991Apr08.161444.10025@cs.ruu.nl>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Apr08.161444.10025@cs.ruu.nl> hnridder@cs.ruu.nl (Ernst de Ridder) writes:
>Why should one of these forms be preferred over the other in such a situation,
>apart from personal preferences?

Some of us find it clearer to treat ++ and -- unary operators the same
way as other unary operators, namely apply them from the left:
	!x	not	x!
	++x	not	x++
This is a matter of style, but that does not mean that it is arbitrary.
(Although in this case I would say that it doesn't matter a whole lot.)