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On Oct 19, 5:05 pm, Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3min...@eastlink.ca>
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> On 11-10-19 04:54 AM, whl wrote:
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> > On 10月19日, 上午11时48分, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
> >> whl wrote:
> >>> Dear all
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> >>>            I am a freshman ,I from china, I have been learn java for
> >>> mouths,my English isn't very well ,may my question expression is not
> >>> very clear,but I hope I can learn with you together! thank you !
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> >>> . when I do some test ,I found the question ,It is the code
> >>> ======start=========
> >>>        public class Inc{
> >>> public static void main(String argv[]){
> >>>                 Inc inc = new Inc();
> >>>                 int i =0;
> >>>                 inc.fermin(i);
> >>>                 i = i++;
> >>>                 System.out.println(i);
> >>>         }
> >>>         void fermin(int i){
> >>>                 i++;
> >>>         }
> >>> }
> >>> ========end========
> >>> I think the result is 1,but the real result is 0. I don't kown the
> >>> statement i=i++ operation sequence.  In my opinion , variable i's
> >>> values is 0,then i++ ,the variable i's values is 1. They share a
> >>> common memory space,the variable i should change the values.
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> >> The i=i++ operation sequence is:
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> >> 1. Evaluate i++. It has the side effect of incrementing i to 1, but has
> >> as result the old value of i, 0.
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> >> 2. Do the assignment. This sets the left hand side, i, equal to the
> >> result of the right hand side, 0.
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> >> In theory, i does change to 1, but immediately changes back to 0. In
> >> practice, the change in i's value might get optimized out. The effect of
> >> i=i++ is to leave i unchanged.
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> >> Patricia
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> > so ,thank you for you answer my question ,I just don't know the
> > variable i is share the common memory space and when the left hand
> > side ,i ,equal to the result of the right hand side ,0,then ,i
> > increase to 1,so ,in the memory ,the variable i's value should be 1.if
> > change the expression i=i++ to i++,the result is 1.
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> > whl
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> WHL, try a little experiment. Leave ++ (post or pre) aside for a moment.
> Write another method that accepts an int parameter. This method also
> modifies the value (maybe just by adding 42 to it, or setting it to 0).
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> Call the method, passing in an int variable set to a particular value.
> Then print out the value of the variable that you passed in as an argument.
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> Did you expect the value of that variable to change? Why?
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> AHS
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> --
> I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the
> cases I get interested in.
> -- O. J. Simpson

thank you ,I will try more experiment.

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A freshman's question whl <wanghailunmail@gmail.com> - 2011-10-18 20:08 -0700
  Re: A freshman's question Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-10-19 04:48 +0100
    Re: A freshman's question whl <wanghailunmail@gmail.com> - 2011-10-19 00:54 -0700
      Re: A freshman's question Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-10-19 09:20 +0100
        Re: A freshman's question whl <wanghailunmail@gmail.com> - 2011-10-19 03:38 -0700
          Re: A freshman's question Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2011-10-19 17:48 +0200
            Re: A freshman's question Tim Slattery <Slattery_T@bls.gov> - 2011-10-19 12:24 -0400
              Re: A freshman's question whl <wanghailunmail@gmail.com> - 2011-10-20 03:55 -0700
            Re: A freshman's question whl <wanghailunmail@gmail.com> - 2011-10-20 03:50 -0700
          Re: A freshman's question Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-10-19 09:58 -0700
            Re: A freshman's question Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-10-19 18:47 +0100
            Re: A freshman's question whl <wanghailunmail@gmail.com> - 2011-10-20 03:48 -0700
        Re: A freshman's question whl <wanghailunmail@gmail.com> - 2011-10-19 03:49 -0700
          Re: A freshman's question Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-10-19 18:58 +0100
            Re: A freshman's question whl <wanghailunmail@gmail.com> - 2011-10-20 02:13 -0700
      Re: A freshman's question Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-10-19 06:05 -0300
        Re: A freshman's question whl <wanghailunmail@gmail.com> - 2011-10-19 03:38 -0700
    Re: A freshman's question Travers Naran <tnaran@gmail.com> - 2011-10-20 07:30 -0700
      Re: A freshman's question Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-10-20 10:08 -0700
        Re: A freshman's question Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-10-20 18:22 +0100
        Re: A freshman's question Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-10-20 13:59 -0700
        Re: A freshman's question Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-10-20 17:38 -0500
  Re: A freshman's question Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-10-19 23:56 -0700
    Re: A freshman's question whl <wanghailunmail@gmail.com> - 2011-10-20 03:55 -0700

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