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From: bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: difference between c++; and ++c;
Keywords: pre post increment decrement grammar style
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Date: 21 Apr 91 20:19:37 GMT
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In article <1991Apr18.230559.28858@arcturus.uucp> berry@arcturus.uucp (Berry;Craig D.) writes:
>My conclusion:  "++c" and "c += 1" are semantically
>equivalent, and "++c" is shorter.  My vote goes for the
>latter.

There's about six years' worth of Obfuscated C Code Contest winners
that tend to indicate that shorter is not a reason for better.

				--Blair
				  "Necessary nor sufficient."