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> I think you are confused about pre-increment / post-increment.
> Consider the following analogous example:
>
> int i = 1;
> int j = (i++);
> std::cout << j; // did you expect 2?

Thanks a lot!!

> My advice is to be careful about making assumptions about the C++
> language based on the output of such a program.
>

Advice well taken and I will keep a note of that while learning C++