Re: silly question: prefix vs postfix ops

Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra@alumnos.utalca.cl>
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:24:45 -0300

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From: Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra@alumnos.utalca.cl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:24:45 -0300
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 08-03-012
Keywords: design, syntax
Posted-Date: 03 Mar 2008 16:17:54 EST

El lun, 03-03-2008 a las 10:37 -0800, MattR escribiC3:
> Why is it !a and not a!


Well, in this particular case, for me, "a!" has a very different meaning
in a very different context (factorial function), and well, in logic,
the negation operator has been always a prefix one: "B,a". So I'm
definitively more comfortable with the prefix approach.


Claudio


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