Changes: Increment

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The increment operator is a special case of addition, and adds the fixed value 1 to a variable. This cannot be used on literals or constant variables. This operator is a single instruction by itself and can only be used on one variable at a time.

FDS

• <variable:number><whitespace>got one more<punctuation>
  • Increases the given variable by 1 and returns the variable's previous value.

•  There was one more<whitespace><variable:number><punctuation>
  • Increases the given variable by 1 and returns the variable's new value.

•  add<whitespace><value:number><whitespace> to<whitespace><variable:number><punctuation>
  • Increases the given variable by the value of the given number.

Example

FiM got one more.
 There was one more Pinkie Pie.
I would  add 15  to Pinkie Pie.

This adds 1 to the variable FiM and then to Pinkie Pie, and then adds 15 to Pinkie Pie.

Its Java equivalent is as follows:

FiM++;
++PinkiePie;
PinkiePie += 15;

See Also

• Add
• Decrement
• Suffix notation