Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition

4.13 Increment and Decrement Operators

Java provides two unary operators (summarized in Fig. 4.14) for adding 1 to or subtracting 1 from the value of a numeric variable. These are the unary increment operator, ++, and the unary decrement operator, --. A program can increment by 1 the value of a variable called c using the increment operator, ++, rather than the expression c = c + 1 or c+= 1. An increment or decrement operator that’s prefixed to (placed before) a variable is referred to as the prefix increment or prefix decrement operator, respectively. An increment or decrement operator that’s postfixed to (placed after) a variable is referred to as the postfix increment or postfix decrement operator, respectively.

Fig. 4.14

Operator	Sample ...