In Java, how does a post increment operator act in a return statement?

Question

Given the following code, will ixAdd do what you\'d expect, i. e. return the value of ix before the increment, but increment the class member before leaving the function?

Answer 1

It does return the value before the increment, and then increment _ix. Therefore the first time you call the method ixAdd on an instance of myCounter it will return 1, the second time it will return 2, and so on.