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Confusing foo++ and ++foo
In many cases, the forms foo++ and ++foo are identical.
However, if they are hidden inside another statement, there can be a subtle
difference. For example:
my_array [++my_index] = 0;
The code ++my_index cause my_index to be incremented by 1
before the assignment takes place, whereas my_index++
would have cause my_index to be incremented after the assignment
takes place. Sometimes you'll want one and sometimes the other.
If you find that your program is miscalculating by a difference of 1
(this is called an off-by-one bug and is quite common),
a prefix or postfix ++ could be the cause. The same holds for
other prefix and postfix operators, such as --.