"k should be 1 right???? " No, it shouldn't be because the expression evaluation will stop at the very first sub-expression as soon as it evaluates to true in the "m=++i || ++j && ++k ; " And the first sub-expression that evaluates to true is the " ++i " Rgds, Ashot
From: algogeeks@googlegroups.com [mailto:algogeeks@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of nadeem khan Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 6:39 AM To: algogeeks@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [algogeeks] Re: Can anyone explain this strange behavior ? i=-3 it gets incremented to -2 (++i) m is evaluated and as ++i is non zero it evaluates to TRUE and m is assigned value 1, hence remaining part is not executed , so j and k is not incremented. On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Dave <dave_and_da...@juno.com> wrote: This is the result of short-circuit evaluation. See, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-circuit_evaluation, or this topic in your language reference. Dave On Monday, June 11, 2012 2:28:52 PM UTC-5, ((** VICKY **)) wrote: #include<stdio.h> int main() { int i,j,k,m,l; i=-3; j=2; k=0; m=++i || ++j && ++k ; <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/printf.html> printf("\n%d %d %d %d",i,j,k,m); return 0; } o/p: -2 2 0 1 k should be 1 right???? -- Cheers, Vicky -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/algogeeks/-/8PoAya7NqjYJ. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:algogeeks%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
