On Apr 23, 2:08 pm, Bob Woodham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > x = x++; > > has unspecified behaviour in C. That is, it is not specified > whether the value of x after execution of the statement is the > old value of x or one plus the old value of x.
unspecified means that the result could be anything: old value, old value+1, -2993882, "trallalla", core dump, stack overflow etc... in Java the behavior is specified, but many might find the result counterintuitive: int x = 0; x = x++; System.out.println(x); prints 0, if I recall it correctly the ++ mutates after the assignment takes place, therefore it increments the old value that then summarily discarded. i. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
