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On 18/10/2011 8:48 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>
> The i=i++ operation sequence is:
>
> 1. Evaluate i++. It has the side effect of incrementing i to 1, but has
> as result the old value of i, 0.
>
> 2. Do the assignment. This sets the left hand side, i, equal to the
> result of the right hand side, 0.
>
> 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.

This is off topic, but I just recently learned that in C++, the result 
of i=i++ is officially undefined.  It's interesting a question related 
to what I learned comes up again in a completely different forum.

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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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