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- From: Alun.Champion@bridge.bst.bls.com (Alun Champion)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: C vs C++ urgently needed Please
- Date: 09 Jan 1996 16:22:46 GMT
- Organization: Computer People Inc.
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- In-reply-to: wiseman@unlv.edu's message of 8 Jan 1996 18:54:52 GMT
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- In article <4crp9s$ntb@homesick.cs.unlv.edu> wiseman@unlv.edu (Christopher A Weiss) writes:
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- : If you want an interesting wuestion though, try to figure out why they
- : called it C++ when (by convention) it should have been called ++C.
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- By which convention should it be ++C ?
- Most early books (see Kernighan & Ritchie) use the postfix increment operator
- if the value of the increment wasn't necessary ie.
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- for (i = 0; i < someValue; i++) {
- ... ^^^
- }
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- So by that convention it should be C++ - which it is ;')
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- Regards
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- -A.
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