OneAndOneIs2

Wed, Jun 06, 2007

A sig. I rather liked

But only programmers will get it.

C++ /* Makes C bigger but returns the old value */

[Smiley]

3 comments • Categories: Omni, Programming

Comments:

Comment from: hari [Member]

· http://hari.literaryforums.org

Clever... there are a lot of variations on similar jokes I've seen around the internet. :=P

Permalink 06/06/07 @ 12:23

Comment from: alison [Member] · http://www.creativehedghog.com

and I thought I was clever when I understood that C++ meant C at the next iteration...

admit I don't get this one... :)

Permalink 06/06/07 @ 13:06

Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/

Look at it this way:

#include <stdio.h>



int main()

{

int C = 0;

printf("C equals %d\n", C++);

printf("C now equals %d\n", C);

return 0;

}

This will output:
C equals 0
C now equals 1

C++ will return the current value of C and then increment C by one. ++C will increment C by one and THEN return the current value of C.

So in C, "C++" will in fact return the current value of C and then make C larger...

Permalink 06/06/07 @ 13:42