c11 - C: Is there anything called a 'prefix expression'? -
the iso/iec 9899:2011 (american national standard c11) talks postfix expressions, there's nothing called prefix expression. why so?
there's whole syntactic category postfix expression, prefix operators classified unary operators , defined in syntactic category unary expression, include prefix increment , decrement operators. note postfix expressions include array subscripting, function calls, , .
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operators, not postfix increment , decrement.
as why: there no stated reason — wasn't seen necessary name.
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