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Default official term for the -- operator?

Interesting. So my supposition about double negation, which I said was
incorrect, was correct. Talk about double negation.

Thanks.

Dave
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"T. Valko" wrote:

Double unary

From Dictionary.com

unary
1. (or "monadic") A description of a function or operator which takes one
argument, e.g. the unary minus operator which negates its argument. The term
is part of the same sequence as nullary and binary.
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the unary minus operator which negates its argument.


Then the second unary minus operator converts it to positive.

Biff

"Dave F" wrote in message
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Is there an official term for the double hyphen operator, -- ?

Double hyphen doesn't really sound informative. Double negation is not
the
answer because -- does not make negative numbers positive.

So???

Dave
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