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From: swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Would *you* get caught by this one?
Message-ID: <11480015@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Jan 89 16:39:01 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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When you have a++, the results are going to be different, i.e.

	a++ *= b      is DIFFERENT from     a++ = a++ * b ;

The first case increments "a" once, the second TWICE.