Post-increment and pre-increment within a ‘for’ loop produce same output [duplicate]

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After evaluating i++ or ++i, the new value of i will be the same in both cases. The difference between pre- and post-increment is in the result of evaluating the expression itself.

++i increments i and evaluates to the new value of i.

i++ evaluates to the old value of i, and increments i.

The reason this doesn’t matter in a for loop is that the flow of control works roughly like this:

  1. test the condition
  2. if it is false, terminate
  3. if it is true, execute the body
  4. execute the incrementation step

Because (1) and (4) are decoupled, either pre- or post-increment can be used.

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