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From: terryh@ukcsd.uk.sun.com (Terry Heatlie - Sun UK - Tech Support )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: difference between c++; and ++c;
Keywords: pre post increment decrement grammar style
Message-ID: <3634@texsun.Central.Sun.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 91 09:10:54 GMT
References: <1991Apr08.161444.10025@cs.ruu.nl> <389@civet.ukc.ac.uk> <3730@inews.intel.com> <3614@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> <1991Apr11.011347.5136@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
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In article <1991Apr11.011347.5136@tkou02.enet.dec.com>,
diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond) writes:
|> 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
|>
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Guilty.  Try "1 more than i was to start with" 
|> >so this is really "increment i and discard the resulting value"
|> (Yes, but.)
|> --
|> Norman Diamond       diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
|> If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.

Regards,
Terry Heatlie.

Disclaimer:  all my own work (except this disclaimer, which I nicked).