Prefix negation

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:34:52 +0200, Rijk-Jan van Haaften <rjchaaft@cs.uu.nl> pisze:

> -3 ^ 2 = -9
> 
> In most programming languages as well as in mathematics
> it is quite unusual to have infix operators with a higher
> priority than prefix operators.

In mathematics the prefix negation is handled like in Haskell:

      2
    -3  = -9

I agree that many languages got it wrong :-)

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