Types and ExpressionsThe following statement is supposed to increment the integer variable...

Types and Expressions

The following statement is supposed to increment the integer variable, x , but it does not work.

x = x++; // NOT SO CLEVER

If x is initialized to 5, what is the value of x after the statement executes? Explain what is going on here.

Hint :Recall that what really happens with x++; is equivalent to this:

w = x;                           // w is a hidden variable you never see.

x is incremented;

return w;