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From: diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: difference between c++; and ++c;
Keywords: pre post increment decrement grammar style
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.011347.5136@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 11 Apr 91 01:13:47 GMT
References: <1991Apr08.161444.10025@cs.ruu.nl> <389@civet.ukc.ac.uk> <3730@inews.intel.com> <3614@texsun.Central.Sun.COM>
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In article <3614@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> terryh@ukcsd.uk.sun.com (Terry Heatlie - Sun UK - Tech Support ) writes:
>|> >   i++;	  "Save the current value of i, increment i then discard
>|> >	   the value just saved"
>|> >   ++i;   "Increment i then discard the resulting value"
>|>     i += 1;	"Increment i."
>
>Of course the value of i+=1 is 1,

W       W    RRRR      OOOO     N   N     GGGGG
W   W   W    R   R    O    O    NN  N    G  G
 W W W W     RRRR     O    O    N  NN    G    G
  W   W      R   R     OOOO     N   N     GGGG

>so this is really "increment i and discard the resulting value"
(Yes, but.)
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Norman Diamond       diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.