Variable Increment and Decrement Operators: ++, — – Basic Elements, Primitive Data Types, and Operators

2.10 Variable Increment and Decrement Operators: ++, — Variable increment (++) and decrement (–) operators come in two flavors: prefix and postfix. These unary operators have the side effect of changing the value of the arithmetic operand, which must evaluate to a variable. Depending on the operator used, the variable is either incremented by 1 … Read more

Unary Arithmetic Operators: -, + – Basic Elements, Primitive Data Types, and Operators

Unary Arithmetic Operators: -, + The unary operators have the highest precedence of all the arithmetic operators. The unary operator – negates the numeric value of its operand. The following example illustrates the right associativity of the unary operators: Click here to view code image int value = – -10; // (-(-10)) is 10 Notice … Read more