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post(not)incremented?

 
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I am a bit baffled by the following.
public class Test
{
static int j;
public static void main(String argv[]){
for(int i =0 ; i<10; i++)
{
j = j++; //xx
System.out.println("i is :" + i);
System.out.println("j is :" + j);
System.out.println();
}
}
}
j gets its own value and the post increment has no effect on it as it does on i. After assigning the value of j to j, shouldnt it then increment j by 1? Changing line marked //xx to read 'j++;' increments j.
 
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It is the way the post-increment works. The behavior is clearly documented in the JLS. In C/C++ the behavior of this statement is undefined which means it may work one way in ove C implementation and another way in a different C implementation. It has been discussed in this forum quite a bit. Try a search.
 
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