Hi Neil, Thanks for replying. Can you tell me why the parentheses are irrelevant, any doc to support that? Songtao At 09:23 PM 1/2/2003 +0000, Neil Booth wrote: >Songtao Chen wrote:- > > > Hi there, > > > > It appears to be a bug to me. > >No, i++ returns the value before increment. Parentheses are irrelevant. > >Neil.