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From: "Gavino" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Curious compiler warning
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:05:25 +0100
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"Roedy Green" <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:55:00 +0000 (UTC), Novice <novice@example..com>
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
> >I'm just wondering why the compiler is so offended by "start--"....
>
> The compiler worries when you compute something and don't use the
> result.  If you had said    bar( --start )    it would be happy since
> the incremented start is passed to bar.

No. This would produce the same warning.

It's nothing to do with not using the result - in the original example, the
result *was* used. It's simply that assigning to a method parameter value is
considered 'bad style', that's all.