why output 0 for this question?

[david hu]

why output 0 for the following code?
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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++;
}
}

[mark stone]

the method fermin() returns void and secondly i is a non-static variable.
hence the line inc.fermin(i); does nothing in the line of progression of code.
next comes the line i = i++; .This line actually does something ,it increments the value of i but this incremented value (now 1) is kept in the stack. so effectively the post increment operation does increment the value for i but this value is not assigned to i.
Hence in the next statement the value of i is still 0 and is printed.

Originally posted by david hu:
why output 0 for the following code?
-------------
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++;
}
}

[Manfred Leonhardt]

Hi,
This has been discussed many times before. Please use the search function here at the ranch and maybe you can be helped much faster. Look here for a good explanation of the operation i = i++.
Regards,
Manfred.