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You can embed expressions involving the increment operator, ++, or the decrement operator, --, in larger expressions, such as the following:

++x + x 

In such an expression, the increment operator, ++, is said not only to produce a value, but also to have the side effect of incrementing x.

Note that the Java language prescribes that operands are evaluated in left-to-right order. Thus, in the expression ++x + x, the left-side operand, ++x, is evaluated before the right-side operand, x.