From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!alb
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Title: Re: Re: order of evaluation parse date s - (nf)
Article-I.D.: alice.1563
Posted: Thu Mar  3 15:46:56 1983
Received: Tue Mar  8 07:28:14 1983
References: uiucdcs.1579

i = 4;
i = i++;

Regardless of whether the increment of the assignment comes first,
i == 5 afterwards.  Think:

If the increment comes first:
i++ (so i == 5)
i = i (so i == 5)

If the assignment comes first:
i = i (so i == 4)
i++ (so i == 5)