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From: diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: difference between c++; and ++c;
Keywords: pre post increment decrement grammar style
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.094402.28033@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 10 Apr 91 09:44:02 GMT
References: <1991Apr08.161444.10025@cs.ruu.nl> <389@civet.ukc.ac.uk> <3730@inews.intel.com>
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In article <3730@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@nevin.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <389@civet.ukc.ac.uk> mtr@ukc.ac.uk (M.T.Russell) 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."
Nope; it's
     i += 1;    "Increment i then discard the resulting value"

(as opposed to  j = (i += 1);  "Increment i then use the resulting value")

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Norman Diamond       diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
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