increment operator

The increment operator increases the value of its operand by 1.

The language was renamed C++ in 1983, as a pun involving the increment operator.

For example, in expressions such as , it is not clear in what sequence the subtraction and increment operators should be performed.

In 1983, the name of the language was changed from C with Classes to C++ (++ being the increment operator in C).

In C and some other computer programming languages, two plus signs indicate the increment operator and two minus signs a decrement.

In C-like languages, the increment operator is written as and the decrement operator is written as .