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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: <15813@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 12 Apr 91 21:18:37 GMT
References: <1991Apr08.161444.10025@cs.ruu.nl> <389@civet.ukc.ac.uk> <3730@inews.intel.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <3730@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@nevin.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>>... it is nice to express what you mean as directly as possible.
>    i += 1;	"Increment i."

++i; is in every way equivalent, including the value that is ignored
of the expression in the expression-statement.  I know of no skilled
C programmer who writes i += 1 under normal circumstances, as ++i is
more directly expressive of the notion.

This doesn't matter a whole lot, other than that students of the
language should try to adopt an idiomatic style that fits into
established practice, to improve communication with co-workers.