Prefix increment and decrement operators
pre-increment-expression: pre-decrement-expression: The operand of a prefix increment or decrement operation must be an expression classified as a variable, a property access, or an indexer access. The result of the operation is a value of the same type as the operand. If the operand of a prefix increment or decrement operation is a property or indexer access, the property or indexer must have both a get and a set accessor. If this is not the case, a binding-time error occurs. Unary operator overload resolution (§7.3.3) is applied to select a specific operator implementation. Predefined ++ and -- operators exist for the following types: sbyte, byte, short, ushort, int, uint, long, ulong, char, float, double, decimal, and any enum type. The predefined ++ operators return the value produced by adding 1 to the operand, and the predefined -- operators return the value produced by subtracting 1 from the operand. In a checked context, if the result of this addition or subtraction is outside the range of the result type and the result type is an integral type or enum type, a System.OverflowException is thrown. The run-time processing of a prefix increment or decrement operation of the form ++x or --x consists of the following steps: · If x is classified as a variable: o x is evaluated to produce the variable. o The selected operator is invoked with the value of x as its argument. o The value returned by the operator is stored in the location given by the evaluation of x. o The value returned by the operator becomes the result of the operation. · If x is classified as a property or indexer access: o The instance expression (if x is not static) and the argument list (if x is an indexer access) associated with x are evaluated, and the results are used in the subsequent get and set accessor invocations. o The get accessor of x is invoked. o The selected operator is invoked with the value returned by the get accessor as its argument. o The set accessor of x is invoked with the value returned by the operator as its value argument. o The value returned by the operator becomes the result of the operation. The ++ and -- operators also support postfix notation (§7.6.9). Typically, the result of x++ or x-- is the value of x before the operation, whereas the result of ++x or --x is the value of x after the operation. In either case, x itself has the same value after the operation. An operator ++ or operator -- implementation can be invoked using either postfix or prefix notation. It is not possible to have separate operator implementations for the two notations.
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