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Hi,

I tried this code.



The output printed is 10 and not 11. After first increment value gets incremented to 10. That is understood. But for post increment even the increment happens after assigning it to variable on left side of '=', the incremented value should get stored in 'i' thereby making it 11. In C/C++ , it prints 11 as expected but how come in Java the value remains 10.
Please help clear this doubt

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hello
Please refer here
This cleared my doubt also .
This would help.
 
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virtualsaum huk wrote: . . . In C/C++ , it prints 11 as expected but how come in Java the value remains 10. . . .

No, it doesn't. The value in C is undefined, so there is no such thing as "as expected". In fact I once tried something similar with three different C compilers, starting with 4. The output from two of the compilers printed 4 and from one 5, for exactly the same code
 
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virtualsaum huk wrote: . . . the increment happens after assigning it to variable on left side of '=', . . .

No, it doesn't. Postincrement has the highest precedence of any operator, so the postincrement is performed before the assignment. It is not at all easy to understand, because the increment is applied to i. The value of i++, however, remains equal to the old value of i. So after incrementing i, you are re-assigning it its old value.

Marlene Miller's postings in that old thread are good.
 
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