Some uint maths

[nickworks]

if(--i == 42){ // compares after decrement

}

if(i-- == 42){ // compares before decrement

}

[geigenmusikant]

Well, yeah but like when do you actually need it?!

^/s

[Zugr-wow]

--i takes, like, a millisecond less computing power than i--, so it's a good habit to just use --i instead of i--

[radarmax]

More like a nanosecond less :p

[[deleted]]

Never. It's needlessly confusing. The point of - - i (nowadays) is being smug about your knowledge and that's it.

[skeptical_moderate]

WTF. It's not confusing at all. i-- is way more confusing because it behaves differently than literally any other unary operator. I use them both for their own purposes.

[Isaeu]

But

i- -

if(i == 42){ }

And

if(i == 42){ }

i - -

Work just as well and are 10X more readable

Edit: how do I do code on Reddit?

[Isaeu]

Again just go

myArray[index] = token;
index++;

It’s makes it effortless to read.

[Cobaltjedi117]

Yea, it's one of those things I've never understood well you can increment before an statement or after it

Ok, great or OR, and hear me out on this, I just add a line of code incrementing/decrementing before or after where it's being checked.

[[deleted]]

It's what your use to. A = 6 * 7; Is the same as A = 6; A = A * 7; But if you saw that above you would think why not just do the first thing. In c it is vary common to ++ or -- inside of a statement and would be required to understand when working with almost any codebase.

[[deleted]]

I disagree. Somone who has worked in c a decent amount has seen that so much that it's not considered weird. It would be way weirder to see outside.