Re: Pre And Post Increment Operator Output

Date	2012-06-22 08:30 -0700
From	Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: Pre And Post Increment Operator Output
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On 6/22/2012 8:02 AM, BartC wrote:
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> This is all true. But I still think that if you ask for opinions as to the
> result of i=(++i)+(++i)+(++i), when i starts at 0, *outside the context of
> the C language*, then 6 is a strong contender.

In Java, i does have a specified resulting value. The effect will be the
same as i=3*i+6.

I don't understand what you mean by "outside the context of the C
language". How can a code snippet have any meaning at all except in the
context of a programming language?

Patricia

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Re: Pre And Post Increment Operator Output "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-22 16:02 +0100
  Re: Pre And Post Increment Operator Output Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-06-22 08:30 -0700
    Re: Pre And Post Increment Operator Output "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-22 17:49 +0100
      Re: Pre And Post Increment Operator Output Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-06-22 10:36 -0700
        Re: Pre And Post Increment Operator Output "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-06-23 09:57 +0100
      Re: Pre And Post Increment Operator Output Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-06-22 20:53 +0100
        Re: Pre And Post Increment Operator Output "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-22 21:35 +0100
          Re: Pre And Post Increment Operator Output Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-06-22 23:19 +0100
            Re: Pre And Post Increment Operator Output "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-23 01:15 +0100
  Re: Pre And Post Increment Operator Output Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-06-22 17:44 +0100

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