Re: Integral types and own type definitions (was Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?)

Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:

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I don't know of any language that uses "-" for both negation (prefix,
one operand) and subtraction (infix, two operands) and treats -5
as a single token rather than a unary minus operator applied to the
constant/literal "5".

How about Lisp?  The unary operator is (- 5), the binary (- 10 5).

It doesn't match your second parenthetical remark ("infix") but
otherwise it does.

-5 is syntactically not an operator followed by a constant.  It surely
gets parsed as a single token.

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