Re: i++ or ++i ?

From:
Hans Mull <deyringer@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:11:28 +0100
Message-ID:
<foi9h2$5vc$1@online.de>
John Brawley schrieb:

Please pardon a maybe very stupid question?
I've read and reread Bjarne Stroustrup on this, and I still don't "get it,"
so I wrote this to help me understand, and now I _really_ don't "get it."
Why, if one increments before, and the other after, do these snippets output
exactly the same?

#include <iostream>

int main() {
for(int i=0; i<10; i++)
std::cout<<i<<", ";
std::cout<<"\n";
for(int i=0;i<10;++i)
std::cout<<i<<", ";
std::cout<<"\n";
int b=7;
b++; std::cout<<b;
int c=7;
++c; std::cout<<"\n"<<c;
//????????? why? same outputs!
return 0;
}

_Same_output_.
What's the difference?
(I use these in a program, which doesn't crash....)


Maybe it will help you do define the difference between ++i and i++;

The statements do the same with one difference:
The value of the statement "++i" is i+1
while the value of i++ is i:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
 int i=6;
 cout << "i++: " << i++ << endl; //Will return i = 6
 int j=6;
 cout << "++i: " << ++i << endl; //Will return i+1 = 7
 return 0;
}

I hope this will help you!

Kind regards, Hans

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