My brain can't comprehend this
Computer Science
Level
3
What will be the output of the following program?
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Note: This problem is language agnostic, meaning that it is language independent.
It will print 0 indefinitiely
It will print numbers from 0 to 4
Syntax Error
It will print numbers from 0 to 5
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1 solution
This behaviour is well defined and i = i++ works in the following way:
First it evaluates expression i++. Evaluation of this expression produces an expression value (which is the value of i before increment) and increments i.
Later it assigns the expression value to i, overwriting incremented value.
So value of i never increases and thus 0 will be printed indefinitely.