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C++ should be called ++C (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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According to syntax postfix increment returns copy of unmodified variable (C++ == C), while prefix increment returns incremented variable (++C == C + 1).

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

???

If c = 1, then c++ = 2

#include using namespace std;

int main() {

int i = 10;

cout << i++ << endl;

cout << i << endl;

}

postfix ++ increments the variable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Postfix increments variable too, but as a side effect. in your code cout << i++ << endl; prints 10 which means, that i++ returned copy of unincremented i.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes c++ == c. That's the point Bjarne Stroustrup made. It is the C language but then it's better.

Nowadays they're not completely compatible. But originally it was a preprocessor that created the C equivalent to be compiled. You could write C++ that compiled with a C compiler as long as you didn't use the extra features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah.

Perhaps ++C == Java or something.

I'm sure that's offensive to some, so apologies for airing the thought.