increment operator

[Ken Turkowski]

In article <11536 at brl-tgr.ARPA> lcc.dan at UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA (Dan McMullen) writes:
>consider the operation of incrementing a pointer:
>	int *ip;
>
>	ip++;
>	  vs.
>	ip = ip + 1;
>this may be a case where the '++' construct is clearer.  any comments?
>
>for myself, the '++' construct in general is more *intuitive* than the altern-
>ative.  it denotes a *single* operation, whether on an interger or a pointer,
>whereas 'i = i + 1' denotes two (or three if fetching the value of 'i' is
>included.  this is a beneficial economy of thought as i read a program.

Also, saying "ip = ip + 1" implies that the pointer is incremented by 1,
rather than by one int size, which may be 2 or 4.  "ip++" implies
"advance to the next element".
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