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From: billj@zaphod.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Style [++i vs i++]
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Date: Sat, 4-Jul-87 14:04:59 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul  4 14:04:59 1987
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In article <246@hubcap.UUCP> beede@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Beede) writes:
>There
>is no reason a compiler needs to generate code differently for i++; and
>++i; if that is the entire expression (and statement).

Yet in the opening section of the C++ Book, we find

    "The name C++ was coined by Rick Mascitti.  The name signifies
     the evolutionary nature of the changes from C.  '++' is the C
     increment operator.  The slightly shorter name C+ is a syntax
     error; it has also been used as the name of an unrelated
     language.  Connoisseurs of C semantics find C++ inferior to
     ++C."

I suspect the reason is that, as others have mentioned, C++ implies
that the value of the expression is determined before the increment.
Are Bjarne or the other abovementioned connoisseurs listening, and
willing to reveal the answer?
-- 
Bill Jones, Develcon Electronics, 856 51 St E, Saskatoon S7K 5C7 Canada
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