How to differentiate (when overloading) between prefix and postfix forms of operator++? (C++)

Question

Because I\'ve overloaded the operator++ for an iterator class

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typename list::iterator& list::it         


        

Answer 1

Write a version of the same operator overload, but give it a parameter of type int. You don't have to do anything with that parameter's value.

If you're interested in some history of how this syntax was arrived out, there's a snippet of it here.