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Line 1 print statement is printing 1 only. but I am getting the answer 2.obviously, inside the method m1 ,we can get class variable value 1.after executing x=x++ ,in the stack one new x variable is created with 2 value.How come it is giving 1 value after the execution of x++.
 
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In x = x++, the increment is discarded because the assignment happens after the increment.
 
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The first value of x is 1.

x=x++;

What we are doing here.....value of x is 1 and we are assigning this 1 value to x and after that we are increasing the value of old x to 2 and discarding that value (not assigning to any variable), So the value of x will be 1 only. If you will do like...

x=++x; // then value of x will be 2.
 
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Hi I changed the code as below and now it prints 2. Can some one explain me how postincrement is working in this case?

 
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In x = x++, the increment is discarded because the assignment happens after the increment.



Keith, I think it is the assignment that happens before incrementing x value.
 
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System.out.println(x + "," + y); // now output will be 2,3



But i am getting the output as 1,3 not 2,3
 
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