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From: twpierce@amherst.bitnet (Tim Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: difference between c++; and ++c;
Summary: What's the point, anyway?
Message-ID: <12810.2808b855@amherst.bitnet>
Date: 14 Apr 91 20:15:16 GMT
References: <1991Apr08.161444.10025@cs.ruu.nl> <389@civet.ukc.ac.uk> <3730@inews.intel.com> <1991Apr10.094402.28033@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
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In article <1991Apr10.094402.28033@tkou02.enet.dec.com>, diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond) writes:
> In article <3730@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@nevin.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>>    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")

Look, technically, that's "Increment i, assign the resulting value to j, then
discard it."  But so what?

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