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From: "Jerry" <lanceboyle@qwest.net>
Subject: Why is abs an operator, not a function?
Date: 17 Oct 2006 22:13:46 -0700
Date: 2006-10-17T22:13:46-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1161148425.954662.138180@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> (raw)

Why is abs an operator and not a function? Just wondering.

Is there no way to write a function abs() that, say, computes the
absolute value of each of the components of a float array?

Jerry




             reply	other threads:[~2006-10-18  5:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-18  5:13 Jerry [this message]
2006-10-18  7:30 ` Why is abs an operator, not a function? Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-18  7:36 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-10-19  1:45 ` Robert A Duff
2006-10-19  4:30   ` Keith Thompson
2006-10-23  2:39 ` Jerry
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