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post increment nesting is dangerous in c++
By __shivam_kumar, history, 3 years ago, In English

you cannot do nesting of post-increment operator whereas pre-increment nesting does not cause any problem

conclusion : never do post increment nesting

eg : 

int a = 10;

 cout<<(++(++a))<<"\n";// valid in c++

 cout<<((a++)++); // in-valid in c++
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Why is it so? What error can it cause?

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    It is not possible to post-increment an r-value.

    The value obtained by applying a postfix ++ is the value that the operand had before applying the operator. The operand shall be a modifiable lvalue. The result is an rvalue.
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      3 years ago, # ^ |
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      Thanks, just googled what r-value and l-value are? We cannot increment a++. Thanks!

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